282 research outputs found
Words of War
No full textSam Hirschman takes a second look at the Wikileaks process.
Aaron Moser interviews “How We Fight” author Dominic Tierney.
From the archives, Bennet Goeckner looks at transportation in Baghdad.
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On Their Way Home: The Role of Aachen in the Exchange and Repatriation of British and German Prisoners of War during the First World War
No full textThis paper analyses the role that Aachen, the western most German city located close to the Netherlands, played during the exchange and repatriation of British and German military prisoners of war from 1914 to 1918. It is argued that Aachen served as an important staging post. British prisoners were assembled in the city, medically examined, and, depending on the examination result, allowed to leave Germany across the border to the neutral Netherlands. The analysis contributes to the historiography by illuminating the neglected role that Aachen played during the exchange and repatriation process
The Rothamsted memoirs on agricultural chemistry and physiology,
No full textReprinted from the philospohical transactions of the Royal Society of London.Contents: v.1. On the sources of the nitrogen of vegetation, by John Bennet Lawes, Joseph Henry Gilbery and Evan Pugh. On the present position of the question of the sources of the nitrogen of vegetation with some new results and preliminary notice of new lines of investigation, by Sir J.B. Lawes and J.H. Gilbert. v.2. Reports of researches on the mixed herbage of permanent grass-land, by Sir John Bennet Lawes, Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert and Dr. M.T. Masters. - v.3. Experimental inquiry into the composition of some of the animals fed and slaughtered as human food, by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert. - Supplement...Composition of the ash of the entire animals and of certain sepatated parts, by Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert.Mode of access: Internet
Mary Bennet : The most contradictory girl in the neighbourhood
No full textCritics of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice often tend to focus on the central characters but focus in this essay will be on the middle sister Mary Bennet. Author Alex Woloch claims in his book The One vs. the Many that Mary’s main function in the novel is to be a contrast to Elizabeth in order to fulfill her as a character. The purpose of this essay is then to show that Mary is an important character and what it is that makes Mary’s character different from her sisters’. A close reading of the novel has been applied in order to analyze Mary’s character and her function in the novel. The essay will show that Mary could be read as a representation of the women of her time who had more faith in themselves than to rely on men in order to have a secure future
Mary Bennet : The most contradictory girl in the neighbourhood
No full textCritics of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice often tend to focus on the central characters but focus in this essay will be on the middle sister Mary Bennet. Author Alex Woloch claims in his book The One vs. the Many that Mary’s main function in the novel is to be a contrast to Elizabeth in order to fulfill her as a character. The purpose of this essay is then to show that Mary is an important character and what it is that makes Mary’s character different from her sisters’. A close reading of the novel has been applied in order to analyze Mary’s character and her function in the novel. The essay will show that Mary could be read as a representation of the women of her time who had more faith in themselves than to rely on men in order to have a secure future
Raising Ladies at Longbourn : What Impact Does the Bennet Couple's Treatment of Their Daughters Have in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
No full textThis study investigates the childrearing skills of the fictional characters Mr. And Mrs. Bennet in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, as well as their impact on the storyin general and on their children in particular. The spouses are first presented anddescribed individually, then as a married couple and finally as parents. This final andmajor part of the discussion conentrates on the oldest and the youngest of the Bennetdaughters especially, but touches briefly upon the other three as well. In performing thisanalysis, behaviouristic and psychoanalytical theories have been employed, in additionto biographic material on the author and historical accounts on childrearing, in order todetermine what aspects of the Bennet children's personalities and conduct should beascribed to their parents' handling of them. The results show that the Bennet parets failalmost completely in raising their daughters into healthy individuals, which should betheir aim according to the psychoanalytical model, and also in training them to becomethe functional, marriable ladies that they would have to be for their parents to beconsidered successful from a behaviouristic perspective. Their failure to secure a stableeconomy for their daughters adds to this. Not all the Bennet couple's efforts result infailure, however, and they both have traits to recommend them. Still, their treatment oftheir daughters affect both them and the course of events in the novel negativelly
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“Daguerreotypes in the South at New York Prices:” A Paper Archaeology of John Armstrong Bennet
No full textThe study of nineteenth century photography has focused for the most part on paper photography, acknowledging the years of the daguerreotype as a period of curiosity and experimentation while disregarding the impact of this era today. Available scholarship has sought to study these early images through archival and material approaches, navigating recurring historiographic voids and image losses, often in the form of national histories of the medium. This essay builds on the overlap of some of these histories to reconsider the production of photography in the Americas, namely through daguerreotype portraits and their fashioning as commodities by print cultures aimed at creating and seeking new customers. To do so, the article follows John Armstrong Bennet, a multifaceted tradesman and occasionally a daguerreotypist, on his continental journeys between 1840 and 1877. Bennet’s written traces allow for an archaeological study of the relations between early photography and print, evidencing the complexities behind mechanical but not exactly multiple reproduction. Through Lisa Gitelman’s concept of paper knowledge (2014), the article considers the manifold manifestations of a hybrid form of authorship put forward by Bennet in the written form, be it in his advertisements, bureaucratic paperwork, or in his own oeuvre . Through the analysis of the written sources, it may be possible to grasp a fleeting likeness of the author behind these marketable ‘works of art’, and more importantly, link through his presence the expansion of a photographic frontier to that of liberalism, manifest in the ever-growing presence of multiple reproduction in the printed form
Jane Austen's characters Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse and their social position
No full textThis thesis aims to analyze the social status of the main characters in Jane Austen's novels, specifically Pride and Prejudice and Emma. The bachelor thesis is divided into four chapters. The first deals with the author Jane Austen, her life and work, and then focus on the authors who influenced Austen in her writing. The second chapter brings us closer to the time when the author lived in England in the 19th century. The era was called the Regency Era and we going to look at the role and differences in the lives of women and men and the economic situation, both in general in the 19th century and in Jane Austen's novels. Examples of how much the main male characters earned going to be given. The third part finally focuses on the main character of the novel, Emma. It describes the features that make Emma different from the other heroines in the rest of Austen's novels, while also discussing her position in the circle of society in which she existed. The second sub-chapter reveals the relationship with the closest characters with whom Emma came into contact. The last chapter of Elizabeth Bennet has a slightly different structure than the previous one, even though the work tries to cast the main characters in the same light. It defines the limits of the Bennet family, which is related to their income and therefore limits their social status in society. Elizabeth's womanhood is also included in the last chapter. At the end of the work, I compare our two heroines, specifically their personalities, views on marriage, character development, and social status
Networking narrative: a rhetorical analysis of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries
No full text2014 Spring.Transmedia storyscapes, nonlinear narratives told across many different media platforms, have emerged as important sites of non-traditional reading and writing practices. These narratives enable a type of reading and writing that is subversive to exclusionary Western rhetorics. This study applies a Bitzerian rhetorical analysis to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a successful transmedia storyscape. Bitzer's definitions of exigence, audience, and constraints are challenged when applied to a transmedia text. This thesis will explore how meaningful redefinitions of key elements within Bitzer's rhetorical situation can further an understanding of transmedia. This rhetorical analysis will highlight the ways in which Rhetoric and Composition can use transmedia narratives to make space for important matters of identity and feminist forms of writing as identified by Cixous and Rich. Transmedia storyscapes are an important, though as of yet largely unconsidered, form of digital rhetorics. This thesis seeks to establish transmedia storyscapes as a viable genre of writing that successfully embodies feminist principles through the subversion of traditional writing practices
Poems on several occasions. By John Bennet, a journeyman shoemaker [electronic resource].
No full textWith a list of subscribers.Imprint punc. conf. by IEN (NA)Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
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