64 research outputs found
Testimonial to the life of John Jinks, Physician
No full textThis document attests to the life of John Jinks, a Physician, the author is not named, nor the context or reason for the document provided. 7.5" X 12
An examination of citizen participation in community development: a case study of the city of Beauport, South Carolina, 1985
No full textThe primary purpose of this study is to critically examine the problems inherent in the implementation of the comprehensive community development projects that are funded by the Community Development Block Grant funds in the City of Beaufort, South Carolina. The findings of this study revealed that there was lack of participation on the part of the citizens within the target areas in the community development efforts. In addition, the study also revealed that the city relied solely on funds from the federal government without seeking alternative sources of funding (especially from the private sector) to implement its community development efforts. Two case studies on public-private partnership in the cities of Baltimore, Maryland, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota were utilized to highlight the successes of such joint ventures. The primary sources of information for this study were obtained from participatory observation and interviews with employees of the Department of Community Development in Beaufort, as well as members of the Community Development Advisory Committee. Secondary information was obtained from books, articles, minutes of the Beaufort City Council meetings, pamphlets and other documents
How Valid Is The DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency Test as an Indicator for Identifying At-Risk Readers and Documenting Their Progress?
No full textThe passage of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in 2001, with its emphases on accountability, quality of instruction, and data-driven decision making, has created a national debate centered around the efficacy of a variety of practices in our nation's schools. The effective use of valid and reliable quantitative assessments to inform instructional and curricular decisions made by reading practitioners and decision makers at all levels is vitally important if student achievement is to be maximized. The focus of this research was on two of these assessments which were used with 1st - 3rd grade students at the Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Ojibwe School from 2004 - 2010 as part of the implementation of the federally funded Reading First program - the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) and the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT). The purpose of this study was to determine if a student's score on the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency spring assessment correlated with reading progress as shown on the Reading First Stanford Achievement Test. Findings suggested that the use of DIBELS ORF for screening and identification of struggling readers, with the Reading First initiative's context of scientifically-based reading researched methods of instruction and intervention for the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties, has been supported
Land, metal, and community : a depositional analysis of Iron age iron objects in Britain
No full textHingley (2006) indicates it is the specific contexts for iron object depositions which are of primary concern to their depositors. This will be tested further within this research. Here it will be argued, deposits of iron objects include both those which are routine and part of daily praxes, and others which are manufactured, carefully being used as social conversations for place-making. The social and technical aspects of the chaîne opératoire of iron objects will be explored and the relationship this may have to deposition, fully considered. The exploration for the motivations behind place-making will consider both the social and technical biographies of place or space and iron objects within. As a practising blacksmith, the author will add commentary to the performativity of craftsperson(s) producing iron and manufacturing objects.Deposition represent people’s connection to both social phenomena and routine practicalities as they move from place to place and engage in daily and ritual activity (Chadwick, 2012, 2014). Chadwick (2014) also suggests the meaning of demarcation through deposition or construction can never be fully understood by people of the present. Despite this, direct correlations between space, place, and practiced activity often with specific objects, like those of iron, may be observed in Iron Age and Roman Britain (Haselgrove and Hingley, 2006; Bradley, 2016; Rippon, 2018; Wilkinson, 2019; Bland et al., 2020). This research will further identify regional patterns in the depositional tradition of iron objects in non-burial contexts and seek further expand on what is known of deposition in Iron Age Britain
Contextualizing Spiritual Authority in \u27The Book of Margery Kempe\u27
No full textThe Book of Margery Kempe is primarily, and most importantly, a manual of spiritual instruction mediated through the body and voice of an illiterate female mystic. Excluded by her gender and her illiteracy from the ecclesiastical traditions of auctoritas, Margery Kempe largely relies upon visual and oral learning and her female experience to create her own parallel auctoritas in her spiritual autobiography. Kempe\u27s text centralizes female maternal, sexual, and social experience as its mystical locus and validates that experience as a corollary to her spiritual teaching. Through its contextualization of prevalent themes in affective mysticism, of the iconographic and textual motifs of affective piety, and of the influences of late medieval heterodoxies, The Book of Margery Kempe translates Kempe\u27s mysticism into spiritual instruction and presents Kempe as a spiritual auctor. Margery Kempe\u27s tears, visions, and locutions mark her as a mystical medium for God\u27s message of contrition and conversion. The textual and iconographic traditions of affective piety become Kempe\u27s textual metaphors, mnemonic devices, and corporeal Jinks. The process of seeing and hearing books read to her, Kempe\u27s primary venue of oral learning, substitutes for the authority of literacy in her Book. An examination of the influences of late medieval heterodoxies demonstrates how Lollardy functions in Kempe\u27s narrative as a signifier of opposition and as an assertion of Kempe\u27s spiritual authority. Throughout The Book of Margery Kempe, Kempe\u27s behavior often seems to mark her as socially and/or religiously deviant, but her apparent deviance furthers what she perceives as her life\u27s purpose-to serve as God\u27s mystical medium and to dedicate herself to bringing others to God through that medium. The contextualizing of spiritual authority in The Book of Margery Kempe creates a compelling voice for the mystic as transformer of the female human experience into spiritual instruction
Land, metal, and community : a depositional analysis of Iron age iron objects in Britain
No full textHingley (2006) indicates it is the specific contexts for iron object depositions which are of primary concern to their depositors. This will be tested further within this research. Here it will be argued, deposits of iron objects include both those which are routine and part of daily praxes, and others which are manufactured, carefully being used as social conversations for place-making. The social and technical aspects of the chaîne opératoire of iron objects will be explored and the relationship this may have to deposition, fully considered. The exploration for the motivations behind place-making will consider both the social and technical biographies of place or space and iron objects within. As a practising blacksmith, the author will add commentary to the performativity of craftsperson(s) producing iron and manufacturing objects.Deposition represent people’s connection to both social phenomena and routine practicalities as they move from place to place and engage in daily and ritual activity (Chadwick, 2012, 2014). Chadwick (2014) also suggests the meaning of demarcation through deposition or construction can never be fully understood by people of the present. Despite this, direct correlations between space, place, and practiced activity often with specific objects, like those of iron, may be observed in Iron Age and Roman Britain (Haselgrove and Hingley, 2006; Bradley, 2016; Rippon, 2018; Wilkinson, 2019; Bland et al., 2020). This research will further identify regional patterns in the depositional tradition of iron objects in non-burial contexts and seek further expand on what is known of deposition in Iron Age Britain
Undertaking survey research with young people: Maximising response rates
No full textThis presentation will outline the difficulties encountered when undertaking postal survey research with young people. The study undertaken aimed to establish the smoking and non-smoking habits of young people aged 11 to 1� years old who were members of a Smokebusters’ club and compare the findings to a similar survey of club members undertaken � years previously. A number of authors describe the smoking behaviour of young people. For example, Goddard and Higgins (2000) report that whilst from the age of 1� years old the smoking behaviour in boys has fluctuated over the last decade there has been a steady increase in the numbers of young girls who smoke in the UK. A survey was conducted of all the Smokebusters members (n=2810). Response rate to this survey was 16% (n=��8). Findings were then compared to a similar survey conducted five years previously (n=2810). Response rates to the first survey was 1�% (n=�6�). It may be concluded that a disappointing feature of both surveys was the low response rates. Review of similar studies with young people show most published research reports use of face-to-face approaches as against a postal survey approaches. There are very few reports of use of postal surveys of young people. One author who used this approach with a slightly older age range than the present study (1� to 16 years old) does report a 7�% response rate (Smith et al 200�). However, Smith et al state that they undertook extensive liaison work with the schools whose pupils participated in the survey along with eliciting teacher support to improve response rates. It may be concluded that relatively high response rates can be achieved with this type of survey of young people if questionnaires are administered with the cooperation of schools and in a face-to-face or in a ‘captive audience’ situatio
Low life & high jinks: race, ethnicity, and politics in Edward Harrigan's Mulligan Guard plays, 1879-1883
No full textTo understand the nuances, contradictions, and levels of agency in immigrant and African-American working class communities, this thesis examines the musical theater of Edward Harrigan, an American playwright whose plays were novel for their sympathetic portrayals of working-class Irish immigrants. I analyze three of Harrigan’s popular plays in his Mulligan Guard series, the Mulligan Guard Ball, the Mulligan Guard Nominee, and Cordelia’s Aspirations. Due to Harrigan’s emphasis on realism, the plays offer insight into the complex racial and ethnic negotiations and political machinations of the working class in Gilded Age New York. I contend that they illustrate contestations over shared urban space between the Irish, Germans, and African Americans, where they engage in dialectic relationships that swayed from friendship to animosity, from collaboration to rivalry. The plays also illuminate working-class perspectives of Tammany’s political machine. Juxtaposed against middle-brow representations of the machine in political cartoons by Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler, Harrigan’s works show the machine as an important avenue of social mobility rather than as a threat to American republicanism. Harrigan’s plays show complexity in interethnic relations while offering subtle critiques of Tammany’s excesses and demonstrate the importance of practical politics over ideology for the working class.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Sean Patrick Boyl
Woman of the river: Georgie White Clark, white water pioneer
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Georgie White Clark-adventurer, raconteur, eccentric--first came to know the canyons of the Colorado River by swimming portions of them with a single companion. She subsequently hiked and rafted portions of the canyons, increasingly sharing her love of the Colorado River with friends and acquaintances. At first establishing a part-time guide service as a way to support her own river trips, she went on to become perhaps the canyons' best-known river guide, introducing their rapids to many others-on the river, via her large-capacity rubber rafts, and across the nation, via magazine articles and movies. Georgie Clark saw the river and her sport change with the building of Glen Canyon Dam, enormous increases in the popularity of river running, and increased National Park Service regulation of rafting and river guides. Adjusting, though not always easily, to the changes, she helped transform an elite adventure sport into a major tourist activity.1. Swimming Rapids in Grand Canyon, 1944-1945 -- 2. Rafting the Rapids, 1946-1947 -- 3. From Passenger to Boatman, 1948-1952 -- 4. Taking Passengers through Grand Canyon, 1953 -- 5. The 'Triple Rig Is Born, 1954 -- 6. Branching Out to New Rivers, 1955 -- 7. Controversies, 1956 -- 8. Glen Canyon Dam and a Clash of Personalities, 1957-1958 -- 9. Exploring Mexican Rivers, 1958-1959 -- 10. Dead Man in Cataract and Other New Experiences, 1960-1961 -- 11. Runaway Rafts, 1962 -- 12. Exploring Canadian Rivers, 1963 -- 13. More of Mexico, 1963-1964 -- 14. High Jinks, 1965 -- 15. Disaster on a Mexican River, 1966-1967 -- 16. Divorce, 1968-1971 -- 17. Changing Faces and Changing Rules, 1972-1975 -- 18. Georgie's Effect on Passengers, 1976-1979 -- 19. Georgie Breaks an Arm, 1980-1982 -- 20. The Year of the Big Water, 1983 -- 21. Tragedy at Lava Falls, 1984-1987 -- 22. Another Tragedy, 1988-1989 -- 23. Birthday Party, 1990 -- 24. Final Run, 1991 -- 25. Memorials to a Legend, 1992 -- Appendix: Georgie's Boatmen and Helpers
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