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The Life and Letters of the Lady Arbella Stuart
No full textLady Arbella Stuart, a woman nearly forgotten in history and literature and yet a woman who lived a full and exciting life which is well documented in her letters to her family, friends and royalty (both Queen Elizabeth I and James VI and I). Arbella Stuart was born in 1575 to Elizabeth Cavendish and Charles Darnley and was brought up by her maternal grandmother, Bess of Hardwick. She was educated from birth about her proximity to the throne (there was a chance she could have been queen when Elizabeth died) and the important role she had in life. There have been several biographies written about Stuart over the years and most recently an excellent text of her existing letters by Sara Jayne Steen which is the primary source of information for this thesis. This thesis examines Stuart’s tone, rhetoric and style in a selection of letters written over the course of her life, where possible using manuscripts viewed in the British Library and Hardwick Hall, as well as the published text. Part of what makes Stuart such an interesting subject is her ability to manipulate her reader and assume different personae, depending on whom she was writing to. The young Stuart writes passionately and often without thinking first, putting her thoughts on paper and then quickly sending them off to the Queen and her advisers. An older and wiser Stuart writes from James VI and I’s court and is very formal in her letters to the King. She is more relaxed when writing to her Aunt and Uncle and depicts court life in a lively informal fashion giving us a valuable insight into what life as a courtier would have been like at this time. Finally the thesis examines Stuart’s last letters written from imprisonment, the work of a desperate woman, fighting for her freedom. Stuart, like most of us, had a multi-faceted personality. She was at times an apparently submissive and subservient subject of the King; a well read and educated woman who adopted the guise of humility and deference to those in authority, the patriarchal order in place. This thesis will depict the many different sides to Stuart and give a brief overview of her exciting and turbulent life, told through her letters
Elizabeth’s Ghost: The Afterlife of the Queen in Stuart England
Get PDFToward the end of James I’s reign in John Reynolds’ 1624 pamphlet, Vox Coeli, or News from Heaven, Queen Elizabeth I discusses England’s contemporary events with her father, her siblings, Anne of Denmark and Prince Henry. The heavenly Elizabeth supported a strong and militaristic England and was critical of the current king. In the latter part of the seventeenth century Elizabeth was presented as a Protestant heroine in contrast to the Catholic James, Duke of York, later James II. But there was one Stuart successor who was connected positively to Elizabeth. In 1706 in the reign of the last Stuart monarch Elizabeth made another appearance in Queen Elizabeths Ghost: or A Dream. Unlike the earlier Elizabeth who stated that James was not a worthy successor, this Elizabeth praised Queen Anne as her worthy successor. This paper examines a range of sources to further understand the impact Elizabeth I’s afterlife had in the century after her death both in terms of politics and religion, and the perceptions of powerful women.</p
"The Consolidated Assistance Program, Reforming Welfare by Synchronizing Public Assistance Benefits"
Get PDFLevin-Waldman examines the structure of existing welfare programs and concludes that the current array of benefits could be synchronized and consolidated to create a new system that would provide economic incentives to work. He suggests combining elements of the earned income tax credit (EITC) and current welfare programs into one program, a consolidated assistance program (CAP). Levin-Waldman argues that a program composed of an assistance component (with one set of benefits for working parents and a different set for nonworking parents) and a child support component could be designed to assure minimal subsistence to those unable to work while providing incentives for those on welfare to work without, in effect, penalizing them for getting off welfare. Such a program would reform welfare more expeditiously than a plan that would simply expand the EITC or put a time limit on welfare benefits. Moreover, such a plan would not necessarily add to the national budget deficit.
Behavioral Economic Rationales for Administrative Law
No full textThe panel discusses the justification of administrative law using behavioral economics.
Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School),
Stephanie Bornstein (University of Florida Levin College of Law),
Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School), panelists.
Moderated by Stuart Benjamin (Duke Law)
Head of Schmarya Levin (1867-1935) 20th century
No full textThe sitter was a Russian-born writer and Zionist. Signed and numbered 2/25 in lower left.Mrs. Zeno Darmstadter, New York.Digital imageDr. Schmarya Levin (1867-1935) was a well-known author and Zionist leader
Australia's Black Summer wildfires
No full textIn this dataset we provide various metrics for the Black Summer wildfires of Australia (September 2019 - mid February 2020), whose area was larger than 100 sq.km. To this end we treated each wildfire as a wildfire event, and extracted various metrics which are either based on the polygon of the extent of the wildfire, or on the approximate ignition point of that wildfire. Our aim was to understand the climatic, vegetation and anthropogenic variables which might explain the wildfires - their spatial and temporal extent, the burn severity etc. The data was collected from a wide range of (mostly) public freely available datasets, full references provided in our publication mentioned below.
This dataset includes the burn date of all Black Summer wildfires of Australia (September 2019 - mid February 2020) based on MODIS and VIIRS, polygons of the largest (> 100 sq.km.) fires (n = 391), and their approximate ignition points. In addition the excel file contains 10 response variables of the fires, and a range of climatic, vegetation and anthropogenic explanatory variables we used to study these fires
Behavioral Economic Rationales for Administrative Law
No full textThe panel discusses the justification of administrative law using behavioral economics.
Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School),
Stephanie Bornstein (University of Florida Levin College of Law),
Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School), panelists.
Moderated by Stuart Benjamin (Duke Law)
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart
Get PDFJ.E.B. Stuart\u27s Place in the Confederate Pantheon Civil War enthusiasts have come to expect a certain quality of research and writing from Jeffry D. Wert. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, Wert has tackled a wide range of subjects including biographies of John S. Mosby, ...
Review of \u3ci\u3eElizabeth I and Mary Stuart: The Perils of Marriage\u3c/i\u3e by Anka Muhlstein
Get PDFThe author of this study is not the first biographer to bring Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart together, but her study of these queens applies a specific lens to the enterprise: the negotiation and influence of marriage on their lives and reigns. Beginning with the question of how marriage “affected queens regnant in the age of absolute monarchies,” Anka Muhlstein proceeds to explore how marriage affected Elizabeth and Mary from their earliest years as young princesses through the constant pressures to find appropriate husbands amidst political and religious rivalries (1). Elizabeth never married, and Muhlstein’s central argument is that Elizabeth’s ability to navigate her long reign as an unmarried queen is a result, in large part, of her witnessing the mistakes and misfortunes of the marriages surrounding her, particularly those of her cousin Mary, who was betrothed in the cradle and married no less than three times. ... Muhlstein’s book is engaging and well written and should appeal to a wide audience
Oral History Interview: Henry Wortis (1371)
No full textAbstract: In his March 2005 interview with Matt Levin, Henry Wortis discusses his involvement in the Labor Youth League while an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He details the group?s membership, activities, and relationship with the wider array of leftist political ideologies, emphasizing the growing division between the Old Left and youth in the LYL. This interview was originally conducted for the author?s research for Cold War University and has been submitted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program
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