1,906 research outputs found
Barbara Beal, interviewed by Amy L. Stevens
No full textBarbara Beal, interviewed by Amy L. Stevens, May 1, 2003, in Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, Maine. Beal, age 56, talks about her service as an Army nurse in the Vietnam War; her family and friends’ reaction to her deployment; her anxiety prior to deployment; her training experiences; her preconceptions of the war vs. the reality; her emotional experience of the war; her typical day at the medevac hospital; the dangers of the job; her leisure time; socialization between men and women; her most important relationships during the war; her reception upon returning as a veteran; whether the war changed her; continuing her nursing career as a civilian; moving to Maine from Pittsburgh; whether she would do it all over again; her family history; the ethnic and gender makeup of her coworkers during the war; her experience of sexism in the military; her positive memories of the war; male soldiers’ visitation of prostitutes; and wartime pregnancies. Text: 21 pp. transcript. Recording: No recording.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf144/1081/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Amy Howard – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAmy Howard, executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies, discusses her new book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing, published recently by the University of Minnesota Press. Her research and book looks closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco and brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them
Erma Frances Fletcher, interviewed by Amy L. Stevens
No full textErma Frances Fletcher, interviewed by Amy L. Stevens, April 24, 2003, in Dexter, Maine. Fletcher, age 79, talks about her family history; her early life; working in a factory after high school; the stigma against female military service; enlisting in the Navy in World War II; her basic training experiences; marching for President Roosevelt; surviving on a small stipend; missing out on serving in Manila; her transcription work; how she spent her leisure time; meeting her husband during the war; regretting not staying in the service after 1946; moving to Washington, D.C. after her service; her sense of patriotism during the war; whether she would recommend enlisting in that time period; working under female superior officers in training and male afterwards; doing kitchen police (KP) duty; losing weight in basic training; women dropping out during basic training; her reception upon returning as a veteran; and whether her military experience changed her. Also included: print of photo. Text: 14 pp. transcript. Recording: No recording. Photograph: p14498, detail p14499.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf144/1083/thumbnail.jp
The Power of Place in Memory: An Oral History of the Eastern Corporation in Brewer,Maine
No full text“If preservationists are to be true to the insights of a broad, inclusive social history encompassing gender, race and class . . . it means emphasizing the building types — such as tenement, factory, union hall or church — that have housed the working people’s everyday lives.”1 This article introduces a special issue of Maine History on the state’s paper industry and particularly the fortunes of the Eastern Fine Paper Company in Brewer. The mill, which closed in 2005,was an economic and cultural mainstay of this Maine town, and in this article MacDougall and Stevens trace the history of a unique project that documented, from a variety of perspectives, the closure and its effect on the lives of the people who, for generations, had worked and lived in the mill community. Pauleena MacDougall is director of The Maine Folklife Center and faculty associate in Anthropology at the University of Maine. She received her Ph.D.in American history from the University of Maine in 1995 and has published widely on Penobscot Indian language, culture, and history, including The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People (University of New England Press).Amy Stevens, a lifelong Brewer resident, received her M.A. in history from the University of Maine in 2007 and worked for the Old York Historical Society, the Maine Folklife Center, Primary Source, and the American Folk Festival in Bangor, researching topics of special interest to Maine schools and Maine curriculums. She teaches elementary school
Accumulated testimony: layering French girls' diaries on the Algerian exodus
No full textIn 1997, French-Algerian author Leïla Sebbar published an illustrated children’s book, J’étais enfant en Algérie, juin 1962 (‘I was a child in Algeria, June 1962’) in which she creates the fictional account of a young girl from the interior of Algeria leaving her home during the great exodus of the French just prior to Algerian independence. Using the genre of diary writing, Sebbar’s text reads as testimonial of fleeing their country for a homeland they do not know. Although this text is intimate, Sebbar relies on accumulated scraps of collective experience that, when joined to her own, fill in the absence of her homeland. In 2013, French artist Nicole Guiraud published her personal diaries kept before and during her exodus from Algeria from April to July 1962. Her raw representation of traumatic upheaval is couched in a rich paratext including artwork, photographs, and German translations, that simultaneously intensifies her account and distracts the reader from the extreme pain behind her words. In this article I demonstrate how fictional and real accounts published in very different historical contexts convey the exodus experienced by almost one million individuals and how each author deploys a layering technique to simultaneously draw in and distance the reader from extraordinarily painful personal experience
Polymer blend systems for HVDC cable applications
No full textTwo polyethylene blends crystallized under non-isothermal conditions were compared to a crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) reference material. One blend contained a gelation agent, which forms a network structure within the polymer host. Compared to the reference material, the blends offered higher melting points, increased electrical breakdown strength and enhanced thermo-mechanical stability at high temperatures. Dissipation of stored charge was improved in the blend containing the gelation agent. The provision of recyclable insulation capable of operating at higher temperatures than XLPE, combined with enhanced dielectric properties, may prove invaluable to cable manufacturers
An insight into the world of self-injury
No full textPlan BThe purpose of this paper was to provide general information regarding self-injury in the adolescent population. This paper addressed various aspects of self-injury including the following: typical characteristics of self-injurers, possible reasons as to why individuals self-injure, treatment options, and recommendations for those who work with self-injurers. Also included in this paper are a critique of the current research and recommendations for future research. One of the recommendations is to research the possibility of including self-injury as a separate classification in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Another recommendation for future research is to classify self-injurious behavior according to the motive behind the behavior (i.e. manipulative intent or tension release). A third recommendation for future research is to focus on the reactions of those involved who work with self-injurers (i.e. parents, school counselors, and siblings). The reaction of these individuals may influence self-injurers in a positive or negative way
SERPINB11 Mutation Associated with Novel Hoof Specific Phenotype in Connemara Ponies.
No full textSupplementary data for publication: Carrie J. Finno, Carlynn Stevens, Amy Young, Verena Affolter, Nikhil A. Joshi, Sheila Ramsay, Danika L. Bannasch* (2014). SERPINB11 Mutation Associated with Novel Hoof Specific Phenotype in Connemara Ponies. PLoS Genet. 2015 Apr; 11(4): e100512
SERPINB11 Mutation Associated with Novel Hoof Specific Phenotype in Connemara Ponies.
No full textSupplementary data for publication: Carrie J. Finno, Carlynn Stevens, Amy Young, Verena Affolter, Nikhil A. Joshi, Sheila Ramsay, Danika L. Bannasch* (2014). SERPINB11 Mutation Associated with Novel Hoof Specific Phenotype in Connemara Ponies. PLoS Genet. 2015 Apr; 11(4): e100512
SERPINB11 Mutation Associated with Novel Hoof Specific Phenotype in Connemara Ponies.
No full textSupplementary data for publication: Carrie J. Finno, Carlynn Stevens, Amy Young, Verena Affolter, Nikhil A. Joshi, Sheila Ramsay, Danika L. Bannasch* (2014). SERPINB11 Mutation Associated with Novel Hoof Specific Phenotype in Connemara Ponies. PLoS Genet. 2015 Apr; 11(4): e100512
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