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Are we neglecting the talented minority?
Get PDFSievers, Rodney M. Are we neglecting the talented minority? In: Forum: A faculty and staff journal for Humboldt State University, v.1, no.1, p.13-14
The everchanging reputation of Jimmy Carter
Get PDFJimmy Carter seemed to be the appropriate presidential candidate in the election of 1976 due to his personal characteristics of honesty, devotion to others and his incredible work ethic. He provided a type of possible salvation from the dual fiascos of Watergate and Vietnam, which had caused many Americans to simply write the political system off as corrupt, especially the presidential office. The political climate post Watergate is important to understand as well as the type of man Americans were willing to elect in 1976. Many scholars have looked to the Moral Jimmy (Morris Jimmy Carter: American Moralist) as just that type of man and yet that same trait may have made getting anything done a more difficult task in Washington. From his childhood and through his Naval career, Mr. Carter personified the small town boy. Growing up in a small Southern peanut farm, the Carters were never a rich family. Often waking early in the morning to help his father with chores, a sense of hard work was ingrained at an early age. Religion played a key role in his upbringing, as did the role of family, especially his mother. Incensed by the inequities he found in his post WWII hometown he entered politics. From a Georgia Senate seat to the governor's mansion, Carter worked hard, promised not to lie, and to be thrifty with the people's money. (Carter, Why Not the Best, Bourne, Jimmy Carter and Hyatt, The Carters of Plains) The Election of 1976 was in many ways a new type of election, altered by legislation hoping to curb the powers of an imperialistic president and yet it was also dominated not by the issues that had dominated early elections, for example civil rights and the policies in Vietnam. (Schram, Running for President 1976: The Carter Campaign, Bitzer and Rueter, Carter v Ford: The Counterfeit Debates of 1976) Instead, it was a contest between two men promising healing and a new outsider perspective. In many ways, American voters said that they wanted a man of integrity first and then worry about the issues the nation was facing because without trust all else was a mute point. (see Appendix M: Carter's Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention) Everything about his childhood and political career seemed to say that Carter was sincere in his goals, yet as crisis after crisis arose during his presidency he found it increasingly difficult to balance his personal feelings of morality with the political massaging necessary to get things done in Washington. From the Middle East to the economy, the Iranian hostage situation and the environment, Carter was always trying to do the "right thing." The hard work turned out to be overworked and the honesty was sometimes too honest for many American to swallow. (See Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" Speech) Of course, Carter's presidency has been viewed as ineffective and filled with contradictions (Mollenhoff, The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control and Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter Jr.) In many ways the characteristics that made Carter a viable and popular candidate also hampered his ability to participate in the political process. Carter struggled with his desire to do the right thing in a world where that was not always possible. However once free from the constraints of the Oval Office, Congress and the constant scrutiny of the press, a Carter enveloped by his passions is revealed. (Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency) Carter's human rights efforts around the world have been recognized, including a Noble Prize.application/pdfThesis/Project (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, American History, 2005
Benjamin Franklin's greatest invention : himself
Get PDFThere has been a recent resurgence in scholarly books about the Founding Fathers. One in particular, Benjamin Franklin, has been the subject of numerous books the past few years. Some of his recent popularity can be attributed to the tercentenary of his birth date on January 17, 2006. The rest of the credit goes to his recent biographers. As modern authors contemplate this extraordinary man, so does this historiography. It examines the many images portrayed by Franklin. Whether he was a young apprentice, a business owner, or an elder statesman; Franklin focused on and perfected the image he wanted to portray to others.application/pdfThesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Social Science, Teaching American History, 200
The everchanging reputation of Jimmy Carter
No full textThesis/Project (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, American History, 2005.Jimmy Carter seemed to be the appropriate presidential candidate in the election of 1976 due to his personal characteristics of honesty, devotion to others and his incredible work ethic. He provided a type of possible salvation from the dual fiascos of Watergate and Vietnam, which had caused many Americans to simply write the political system off as corrupt, especially the presidential office. The political climate post Watergate is important to understand as well as the type of man Americans were willing to elect in 1976. Many scholars have looked to the Moral Jimmy (Morris Jimmy Carter: American Moralist) as just that type of man and yet that same trait may have made getting anything done a more difficult task in Washington. \ud
From his childhood and through his Naval career, Mr. Carter personified the small town boy. Growing up in a small Southern peanut farm, the Carters were never a rich family. Often waking early in the morning to help his father with chores, a sense of hard work was ingrained at an early age. Religion played a key role in his upbringing, as did the role of family, especially his mother. Incensed by the inequities he found in his post WWII hometown he entered politics. From a Georgia Senate seat to the governor???s mansion, Carter worked hard, promised not to lie, and to be thrifty with the people???s money. (Carter, Why Not the Best, Bourne, Jimmy Carter and Hyatt, The Carters of Plains) \ud
The Election of 1976 was in many ways a new type of election, altered by legislation hoping to curb the powers of an imperialistic president and yet it was also dominated not by the issues that had dominated early elections, for example civil rights and the policies in Vietnam. (Schram, Running for President 1976: The Carter Campaign, Bitzer and Rueter, Carter v Ford: The Counterfeit Debates of 1976) Instead, it was a contest between two men promising healing and a new outsider perspective. In many ways, American voters said that they wanted a man of integrity first and then worry about the issues the nation was facing because without trust all else was a mute point. (see Appendix M: Carter???s Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention) \ud
Everything about his childhood and political career seemed to say that Carter was sincere in his goals, yet as crisis after crisis arose during his presidency he found it increasingly difficult to balance his personal feelings of morality with the political massaging necessary to get things done in Washington. From the Middle East to the economy, the Iranian hostage situation and the environment, Carter was always trying to do the ???right thing.??? The hard work turned out to be overworked and the honesty was sometimes too honest for many American to swallow. (See Carter???s ???Crisis of Confidence??? Speech) Of course, Carter???s presidency has been viewed as ineffective and filled with contradictions (Mollenhoff, The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control and Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter Jr.) In many ways the characteristics that made Carter a viable and popular candidate also hampered his ability to participate in the political process. Carter struggled with his desire to do the right thing in a world where that was not always possible. \ud
However once free from the constraints of the Oval Office, Congress and the constant scrutiny of the press, a Carter enveloped by his passions is revealed. (Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency) Carter???s human rights efforts around the world have been recognized, including a Noble Prize
The artist as social critic : John Sloan and Thomas Hart Benton
No full textThesis/Project (M.S.S.)--Humboldt State University, Emphasis in American History, 2005.Artistic expression reflects and influences the time, place and culture from which it springs. Many artists were inspired by the revolutionary optimism prevalent in the early twentieth century and viewed their art as a tool for changing society. \ud
In this study I plan to show how some artists have been politically active, chronicling their times and presenting a vision for a better, reformed America. This project focuses on two artists who represented the American experience during the first half of the twentieth century. Both had long careers and all were concerned with the social and economic issues of their day. \ud
John Sloan was a member of the so called Ashcan school of art. He portrayed the life of the common worker at the turn of the century. Sloan???s illustrations for the radical journal The Masses were among the most expressive pieces of political propaganda ever made in this country. \ud
Thomas Hart Benton was primarily concerned with the social and economic struggles of the working class person, especially during the Great Depression and New Deal era. He was also known for his championing of regional themes in art, such as that of Missouri. \ud
Drawing upon biographies such as Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original by Henry Adams and John Loughery???s John Sloan: Painter and Rebel, I plan to explore how both artists exhibited a sense of social awareness. Was their political expression subtle or overt? How did the artists??? observations change over time? What personal experiences shaped the artists??? outlooks? From where did the support for their art come? And, to what degree is their work a mirror of society at large? Many of these questions have been addressed in broader texts emphasizing the complex relationship between art and politics including Frances Pohl???s ambitious survey of American history, Framing America: A Social History of American Art . By understanding the political expression of these two artists, students will gain an appreciation for the power and drama social conditions have on an artist and the powerful influence an artist can have on the era in which he or she lives. \ud
Lesson Plans: \ud
1) Create overhead transparencies of select works of art from each of the three artists. Use them with students for their daily journal writes. Write up a brief biographical sketch on each artist to present to the class as background information. Develop questions for each work of art that refer to technique, style and subject matter. (These transparencies and journal questions will provide students with a model for what I expect in the next lesson.) \ud
2) Art Museum Curator Project: This research project will place students in the role of art curators who must write up a biographical sketch on an artist, describe that artist???s technique, and present five of their most influential works to the class in the form of a museum exhibit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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