327 research outputs found
Oral History Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, January 31, 2001
No full textInterview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, a ranching and former Navy couple from Kerrville, Texas. The couple describes their individual childhoods, growing up in town and on a ranch, as well as their travels around the world. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens also discuss their involvement with the Kerrville community. The interview includes a history of the Kerrville German Dance Club, on pages 2-4
Frances Ellen Colenso, 1849-1887 : her life and times in relation to the Victorian stereotype of the middle class English woman
No full textIncludes bibliographical referencesThe stereotype of the Victorian middle class woman, which generally characterised her as a passive, ornamental, helpless and dependent creature, has been one of the most popular caricatures of the nineteenth century. Recent research into this hitherto largely ignored social class has begun to re-adjust this image. The stereotyped distressed gentlewoman who emigrated to Australia and New Zealand for instance has recently been critically examined, but so far the female emigrant and settler in colonial South Africa has been ignored. It is only since the early 1970s that academic research into feminism began to appear. The influence of the women's liberation movement and of the increasing interest in social history, while stimulating research into Victorian women in England and her colonies, has only penetrated historical research within South Africa in the last decade
A study to determine the need for delivering the Master of Science in Training and Development Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout online
No full textPlan BIn today’s rapidly evolving society, the Internet is changing the way in which we send and receive information. Universities across the globe are beginning to offer complete degree programs online in an effort to offer their programs to anyone who has access to the Internet. These online degree programs are allowing students to receive a quality education regardless of location. The purpose of this study is to determine the need, as expressed by select members of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), for delivering the Master of Science in Training and Development program online. The American Society of Training and Development is an organization comprised of students and professionals interested in the field of training and development. The purpose of researching this particular population is due to their interest and knowledge in the field of training and development. The intent of this study is to determine the participants’ willingness to pursue a Master of Science degree in Training and Development using the Internet as a medium. Past experiences related to online learning as well as their personal level of self-motivation and anticipated success in an online program will also be examined by this study. More specifically this study will determine if they feel they would succeed in the completion of an online advanced degree. Quantitative research, more specifically a survey, will be used to obtain quality and factual data. The researcher will utilize likert scale, multiple choice, and dichotomous questions. According to Pena (2001), “online learning is a convenient way to update your skills and become more competitive in the job market.” Online learning allows students more choices, and therefore more possibility to find a program that meets their needs. An estimated 180 accredited graduate schools now support distance-learning degree programs, and an increasing number of the programs are Web-based (Phillips, 1998). Allowing learners to complete assignments and review lectures on their own time is another benefit of online learning. According to Reid (2002), “web-based degree programs allow students to study and submit assignments virtually around the clock.” The flexibility of online learning allows for a diversity of students’ physical locations. According to Bennett (2001), “students can collaborate on work from different geographical locations at their own pace.” Other potential advantages of online courses include quick (sometimes immediate) feedback between instructors and students, promotion of critical thinking, instant or prompt e-mail messaging or responding, and less expensive modes of communication between students and instructor (Bennett, 2001)
“Adieu, Dear Name”: The thing about names in the works and lives of Frances Sheridan, Frances Burney, Mary Darby Robinson, and Jane Cave Winscom
No full textBritish women in the eighteenth century did not have control over their names in the marriage market because of laws of coverture that rendered them male possessions; consequently, surnames are stamped to them as if they are objects of circulation rather than owners of the names themselves, and this causes problems, from madness to an inability to function as individuals separate from their patriarchal owners. However, the literary marketplace provided these women writers with a space to (1) expose problems of naming systems in their works and 2) modify or alter their own names as they became equivalents of their literary brands. By studying the ways that women writers struggle against, reclaim, reject, modify, and seek to preserve names (either their own or that of their fictional characters), I argue that names are entities that signify identity and social value while simultaneously existing as things separate from a woman’s genuine identity and character. I expose names as the real antagonists in Frances Sheridan’s and Frances Burney’s novels; I argue that Mary Robinson’s purpose for writing her memoir during her final years is to cleanse her name from “Perdita” and re-establish her domestic persona as “Mrs. Robinson"; I prove that even lesser-known and more localized writers like Jane Cave Winscom uses the literary marketplace to modify and preserve her names in ways that are not allowed in a legally acknowledged patrilineal marriage system.Embargo status: Restricted until 09/2022. To request the author grant access, click on the PDF link to the left
A Simple and Flexible Dynamic Approach to Foreign Direct Investment Growth: The Canada-United States Relationship in the Context of Free Trade.
No full textThis paper asks a simple question: Did Wilfred Laurier’s dream of free trade with the United States, when it came to fruition in 1989, also impact on foreign direct investment (FDI) into Canada by US multinationals? This paper argues that the customary static econometric approach found in the FDI literature, along with the assumption that policy changes influence only the intercept term, are inadequate to address the question. Instead we introduce an innovative dynamic framework to support the testing of hypotheses on behavioural changes in the variables using a structural break framework. A key conclusion is that prior to signing the free trade agreement US FDI responded only to current growth in the Canadian economy, in a unitary fashion, and current exchange rate shifts. This can be described as a static relationship. The implementation of the free trade agreements between Canada and the USA increased the responsiveness of US FDI to growth in the Canadian economy by a factor greater than two. Furthermore, dynamics are found in the form of a lagged effect for changes in the growth in the Canadian economy and interest rate differentials. These conclusions challenge the dominant view, including that in official policy circles, that the free trade agreement had no impact on US firms’ FDI decisions in Canada. Note: Previous versions of this paper were entitled: “A Simple and Flexible Dynamic Approach to Foreign Direct Investment Growth: Did Canada Benefit From the Free Trade Agreements with the United States?”Canada-United States, foreign direct investment, empirical relationship
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Frances Trollope and the African American Question: "The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; or Scenes on the Mississippi"
No full textRelegated to a footnote in most literary anthologies, better known for being the mother of Anthony Trollope, Frances Milton Trollope was a remarkably prolific author, a staunch advocate of human rights, a skilled traveler, and a truly transnational artist. Indeed, even though she began her writing career in her fifties, prompted by the financial necessity to support her family, she published over one hundred acclaimed narratives, including several travelogues, novels, and shorter pieces.
In 1827 she followed her friend, the Scottish reformer Frances Wright, to Tennessee, to join the Nashoba Community, a short-lived and controversial utopian experiment. Purchased by Wright, African American slaves in Nashoba were educated and gradually prepared to be repatriated to Africa or Haiti. Trollope became fully acquainted with the slave question in the US, where she lived for a few years before moving back to England: she witnessed the hardships slaves had to endure and the violence inflicted on fugitives seeking sanctuary in Canada.
By focusing on her groundbreaking abolitionist novel, The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whiltlaw (1836), this essay sets out to explore the strategies she employed to tackle the issue of slavery in the US; special emphasis will be placed on her treatment of the real protagonist of the novel: Juno, a woman in her seventies who interprets Trollope’s ideal of maternal feminism
‘Art is us’: Aboriginal art, identity and wellbeing in Southeast Australia
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2007 Dr. Frances EdmondsAboriginal arts practices in the southeast of Australia have, since the early years of colonisation, been rarely considered within the realm of authentic Aboriginal arts practices. Such attitudes were a reflection of the colonial encounter and associated attempts to assimilate the Aboriginal population with the White. This thesis explores Aboriginal arts practices and asserts that there has always been Aboriginal art in the southeast and that, despite the overwhelming effects of colonisation, the work of Aboriginal artists provides a distinct and definite counter-history to that endorsed by the dominant culture. Using published historical and contemporary accounts and recent interviews from Aboriginal artists and arts workers, this thesis investigates the continuation of the knowledge and practice of southeast Australian Aboriginal art and its connection to culture, identity and wellbeing. It explores the corresponding adaptations and changes to these practices as Aboriginal people contended with the ever-expanding European occupation of the region from 1834 onwards.
This project adopted a collaborative research methodology, where members of the Aboriginal arts community were consulted throughout the project in order to develop a study which had meaning and value for them. The collaborative approach combined an analysis of historical data along with the stories collected from participants. By privileging the Aboriginal voice as legitimate primary source material, alternative ways of exploring the history of Aboriginal art were possible. Although the story of Aboriginal art in the southeast is also one of tensions and paradoxes, where changes in arts practices frequently positioned art, like the people themselves, outside the domain of the ‘real’, the findings of this project emphasise that arts practices assist people with connecting and in some cases reconnecting with their communities. Aboriginal art in the southeast is an assertion of identity and wellbeing and reflects the dynamic nature of Aboriginal culture in southeast Australia
Specific and General Information Sharing Among Academic Scientists
No full textWe provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the factors that influence the willingness of academic scientists to share research results. We distinguish between two types of sharing, specific sharing in which a researcher shares her data or materials with another and general sharing in which scientists report results to the entire community (as in conference presentations). We present two simple games in which scientists research a problem of scientific merit (with an associated prize of academic and/or commercial value). In both cases, the scientists have intermediate research results but none has solved the entire problem.We test these models using a unique survey of bio-scientists in the UK and Germany regarding their willingness to "share." Our results generally support both models. In both, sharing is negatively related to competition and the importance of patents. In other respects they differ markedly. For example, large teams are more likely to share specifically but less likely to share generally. Rank does not matter for general sharing, but it does for specific sharing, where untenured faculty are less likely to share. One important implication is that policies designed to enhance sharing must be tailored to the type of sharing.
Sarah Fielding: Satire and Subversion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
No full textThis study of Sarah Fielding (1710―68) is an original contribution to Fielding scholarship that has a dual purpose: to support those who are striving to re-introduce her to the modern literary landscape in an effort to restore her eighteenth-century literary standing, and to firmly establish Fielding as an early feminist writer. It is argued here that throughout her oeuvre Fielding challenged prevailing traditions that denied women a choice, particularly in education, employment and marriage. These themes are also considered in the political treatises of Mary Astell (1666―1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759―97), who are now widely recognised as feminist writers.
It is further argued that Fielding’s subversion in fiction of the English patriarchal system is underscored by her unorthodox performance in the literary arena. This is fully explored alongside her use of sentimentalism as a literary tool with which she challenges her seemingly inhumane society. Fielding’s interest in ‘the Labyrinths of the Mind’ (in modern terms, human psychology) will also be addressed as will her placement in the history of feminism and her placement in the sentimental novel tradition. Fielding’s performance as a literary critic will be compared with the few female authors who, like her, dared to publish literary criticism during her writing career. Accordingly, extracts from Fielding’s novels and her two critical pamphlets will be thoroughly examined.
An updated biography of Fielding that is also included here will provide evidence for a further claim, that her fiction is autobiographical in part. A comprehensive account of Fielding’s performance as a literary critic forms the final chapter of this work. It is the first full-length examination of her contribution to the genre and includes an appraisal of her recently unearthed critical pamphlet entitled A Comparison Between the Horace of Corneille and The Roman Father of Mr. Whitehead (1750) that is yet to be formerly attributed to her. Ultimately this study of Fielding will go far beyond what has previously been written about this remarkable eighteenth-century author, particularly regarding her feminist activity
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