520 research outputs found
Sister Antonianer of St. Francis (Death, 1892-02-26)
No full textAddress: St. Francis HospitalAge at death: 37 yrs.Pg 26/1892/561/of St. Francis/F W S/Germany/Dr. Theo. Bange/Osseforth/St.Joseph'sOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'SLIVER-SLOMER'
McDaniel, Francis (Death, 1899-07-06)
No full textAddress: St. Francis Hospital Queen City Ave.Age at death: 37 yrs.Pg 77/1899/126/M W S/City/Dr. Theo. Bange/P. Rebold/Spring GroveOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'MCCARTHY-MCDEVITT'
Transient observations : the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse
No full textThis thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a
British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between
colonizing practices and the changing representations of the island and its
inhabitants in a range of colonial 'texts', including historiography, travel writing,
government papers, creative writing, and the fine arts.
Part I situates this thesis within a critical engagement with post-colonial
theory and colonial discourse analysis primarily, as well as with the recent
'linguistic turn' in anthropology and history. In place of post-colonialism's rather
monolithic approach to colonial experiences, I argue for a localised approach to
colonisation, which takes greater account of colonial praxis and of the continuous
re-negotiation and re-constitution of particular colonial situations.
Part II focuses on a number of literary issues by reviewing St Helena's
historiography and literature, and by investigating the range of narrative tropes
employed (largely by travellers) in the textualizing of St Helena, in particular
with respect to recurrent imaginings of the island in terms of an earthly Eden.
Part III examines the nature of colonial 'possession' by tracing the island's
gradual appropriation by the Portuguese, Dutch and English in the sixteenth and
early seventeenth century and the settlement policies pursued by the English
East India Company in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
Part IV provides an account of the changing perceptions, by visitors and
colonial officials alike, of the character of the island's inhabitants (from the late
eighteenth to the early twentieth century) and assesses the influence that these
perceptions have had on the administration of the island and the political status of
its inhabitants (in the mid- to late twentieth century).
Part V, the conclusion, reviews the principal arguments of my thesis by
addressing the political implications of post-colonial theory and of my own
research, while also indicating avenues for further research.
A localised and detailed exploration of colonial discourse over a period of
nearly five hundred years, and a close analysis of a consequently wide range of
colonial 'texts', has confirmed that although colonising practices and
representations are far from monolithic, in the case of St Helena their continuities
are of as much significance as their discontinuities
The dramatising of theology : humanity’s participation in God’s drama with particular reference to the theologies of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Barth
No full textThe aim of this project is to investigate the proper response of theology to the Christian God who, as revealed through revelation, is Being-in-act. This project takes seriously the idea posited by Shakespeare, that totus mundus agit histrionem, and upon this stage ‘all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.’ If, then, God’s Being is in act, and as so many have deduced, life and death are enveloped within the drama of everyday, then, might it be possible that our theological endeavours would prosper through a dramatic rendering? In light of this, the project seeks to illumine that it is beneficial for both the Church and society, to realise how drama can be, and is, fruitful for our theological endeavours. God is Being-in-act, and through His revelation, He invites humanity to enter into and participate in His action. In light of the aforementioned, then, theology must contend with the implications for its practices, which, as is being argued, are benefited most through a full embrace of the dramatising of theology.
The thesis is situated in the recent movement of our theological endeavours that recognise the profundity of the dramatic and its ability to illuminate God’s action and call to action from theology, the Church and society. Moving forward from the seminal work of Hans Urs von Balthasar, and set forth in the context of the theologies of Balthasar and Karl Barth, this project argues that it is through the dramatising of theology that theology is best equipped to illumine God’s desire for humanity’s participation in His Theo-drama. The dramatising of theology is a natural response to God’s Being-in-act; it is the natural movement of theology’s response to God’s action which calls for an active response on our part. Current examples of today’s theological movement towards the dramatic can be seen in such authors as Max Harris, Trevor Hart, Stanley Hauerwas, Michael Horton, Todd Johnson and Dale Savidge, Ben Quash, Kevin Vanhoozer, Samuel Wells and N.T. Wright. This project hopes to contribute to the movement towards the dramatising of theology
"A picture held us captive" : investigations towards an iconoclastic praxeology
No full textIconoclastic discourse, as a critique of ‘idols’ of various kinds, has been appropriated by a range of different thinkers and traditions – often not always explicitly religious – throughout history. One of the more recent targets of iconoclasm is metaphysics, understood as a way of doing philosophy that appeals to an ideal or transcendent ground that is used to offer a totalising explanation of ‘reality’. For some reason, the issue of ‘metaphysical idolatry’ has become entangled with the problem of ‘writing’, or ‘representation’ more generally, which is pictured in some rather strange ways by a range of thinkers and theorists – including philosophers and theologians such as Jacques Derrida,
Jean-Luc Marion, and Catherine Pickstock – in order to either challenge, or to be held
accountable for, the ‘idolatry’ of metaphysical thought. It seems, however, that these strange pictures of writing compound rather than solve the problem of metaphysics, and it is towards pictures such as these that we direct our own iconoclastic critique. What many critics of metaphysics have failed to comprehend, we argue, is that metaphysics is a certain type of philosophical practice, and it must therefore be judged from this
perspective. Idolatry itself has, since biblical times, been understood as a form of sinful practice, and unless we understand iconoclastic problems in a praxeological way, we risk basing our critical arguments on delusional assumptions. We turn to the work of thinkers as diverse as Marx, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Ryle, Bourdieu, Ingold, and others, who have challenged metaphysics, and the strange pictures that metaphysical thought has inspired, through the adoption of what we call a praxeological approach. It is from this perspective, we argue, that we can make iconoclastic judgements, and justify these judgements, in a way that avoids the speculative conundrums of some other more problematic approaches
Magnetohydrodynamic Bubble Removal for Water Electrolysis in Reduced-Gravity Environments
No full textTheo St. Francis, Georgia Institute of Technology, United StatesTryston Schmitt, Georgia Institute of Technology, United StatesJaroslaw Syzdek, Biologic, United StatesÁlvaro Romero-Calvo, Georgia Institute of Technology, United StatesICES500: Life Science/Life Support Research TechnologiesThe 54th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Prague, Czechia, on 13 July 2025 through 17 July 2025.Water electrolysis is an essential electrochemical process
for oxygen production in space and high-purity hydrogen
production on Earth. As with all gas-evolving liquid phase
reactions, the presence of bubbles over the electrodes
increases cell resistivity and hinders mass transport of
the liquid electrolyte to the electrode surfaces. On Earth,
efficiency losses due to the presence of bubbles can be as
high as 30%. In a reduced-gravity environment, the lower
buoyancy force will delay bubble detachment further,
leading to additional efficiency losses. Among a variety of
methods proposed and in use for accelerating bubble
evacuation, magnetohydrodynamic pumping via a magnetically
induced Lorentz force has shown promise in controlled lab
trials. In this paper, we describe the modeling and testing
of a magnetohydrodynamic alkaline water electrolysis
architecture where the magnetic field is produced by
off-the-shelf rare-Earth N52 permanent magnets arranged in
a Halbach pattern. The arrays are located just behind the
electrodes to amplify the strength of the field and
facilitate follow-on scale-up efforts. Benchtop tests of
three magnet sizes at current densities between 10-500
mA/cm2 show little or no improvement in
chronopotentiometric trials with magnetic forcing aligned
with and against gravity. However, potentiostatic EIS data
show a 34.5% reduction in diffusion resistance and a 132.5%
increase in diffusion capacitance, which are promising mass
transport benefits that hint at potential benefits for
improved magnetic configurations
Tutta-Sister (Elizabeth Doll) (Death, 1894-11-13)
No full textAddress: St. Francis Hospital Sister of the poor of St. FrancisAge at death: 60 yrsF W S / 206 / pg107 / 1894 / Germany / Dr. Theo. Bange / Wm. Osseforth / St. Joseph's OldOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'Tucker-Underheuser'
Brown, Bridget (Death, 1895-06-21)
No full textAddress: 138 Richmond St. St. Francis HospitalAge at death: 71 Yrs.392/Pg 64/1895/F W M/Ireland/Dr. Theo. Bange/J. J. Sullivan/St. Joseph's NewOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'BROE-BROWN'
Byrne, Nora (Death, 1896-11-24)
No full textAddress: 2385 Vine St. St. Francis HospitalAge at death: 38 yrs.Pg 112/1896/360/F W M/U. S./Dr. Theo. Bange/Huth & Murphy/St. Joseph's NewOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'BUSH-CAHILL'
Farning, Louisa (Death, 1894-03-05)
No full textAddress: 510 E. 3rd St. St. Francis Hosp.Age at death: 32yrs.137/Pg 24/1894/F W S/City/Dr. Theo. Bange/Schreiber/St. John'sOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'EWRY-FARRICK'
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