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"Freely Flows the Blood of Those Who Moralize": Morality and Violence in the Theatrical, Character, and Musical Elements of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd
No full textThis thesis delves into the background of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street to provide a good foundation on which to base a musical analysis. The first chapter describes the theatrical genres that have influenced Sweeney Todd, namely the nineteenth-century melodrama and the plays of the Theatre of the Grand Guignol in Paris. The second chapter follows the history and evolution of Sweeney’s character and motivations through his story’s many adaptations. The third and final chapter – the focus of this thesis – reviews a few existing analyses of the music of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, but more importantly, offers original Schenkerian-based analyses of two songs that represent turning points in the drama, the “Epiphany” scene and “Johanna – Act II Sequence.” These analyses highlight the psychological progression of Sweeney’s character as the musical progresses and discuss whether the music works to support or undermine Sweeney’s words and actions.Music, Moores School o
An examination of the works of Ancient voices by Michael Sweeney, The headless horseman by Timothy Broege and Cut to the chase by Todd Stalter
No full textMaster of MusicDepartment of MusicFrank C. TraczThis document is based on the preparation, rehearsal, and performance of selected pieces for the Graduate Conducting recital of Joshua D. Hankey. The pieces examined in the theoretical and historical analysis for this report are Ancient Voices by Michael Sweeney, The Headless Horseman by Timothy Broege and Cut to the Chase by Todd Stalter. This document also contains rehearsal plans and procedures for the preparation of the literature. The recital was performed on May 9, 2013 in the Santa Fe Trail Middle School Gymnasium on the campus of Santa Fe Trail Middle School, and was performed by the members of the Santa Fe Trail Middle School 7th grade Intermediate Band, and the Santa Fe Trail Middle School Concert Band
Letter from Mary Sweeney to Mr. H. Fullerton, February 15, 1948
No full textA woman investigates the details in support of the bill to naturalize citizens of Japanese descent.The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942
Review of \u3ci\u3eMangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches\u3c/i\u3e By Edwin R. Sweeney
No full textInch by inch Sweeney drags readers through the military life and times of one of the Chiricahua Apaches\u27 most noted leaders Mangas Coloradas. With certain exceptions noted below, the author describes what quite possibly was every major event in this famous chief\u27s life from cradle to grave. Here briefly are stories of his youth, the Native customs applied to children, the activities and the lessons all Chiricahua children learn in growing up. Here too are descriptions of later battles led by Mangas Coloradas and fought in two countries, the attempts to make peace, the successes and failures of those arrangements, and the frustrations on all sides.
Sweeney\u27s research has uncovered names, names, names, producing a virtual who\u27s who among the Chiricahua Apaches and the Spanish and American military on the frontier of the 1800s. Speaking of names, Sweeney concludes that an Apache named El Fuerte by the Spanish later became Mangas Coloradas. Although he won\u27t be seriously challenged on this designation, there was more than one El Fuerte on the Spanish frontier, as indicated by information indexed at the Arizona State Museum. In particular, Spanish military officers in the Sonora of the 1700s recorded one Apache warrior\u27s name as El Calvo Fuerte. Was this also the same man as Mangas Coloradas? It\u27s a curious point that doesn\u27t really matter here, for this is a book of battles, not names, and the actions all swirl around Mangas Coloradas. Rightly so, for without question this biography spotlights one individual only; everyone else occupies a supporting role.
Sweeney\u27s richly detailed description of the military aspects of this Chiricahua Apache chief\u27s life conveys the impression that few Indians were comparable, either in authority or personal power. He did the same in his previous book about Cochise who, not incidentally, was Mangas Coloradas\u27s son-in-law. Perhaps one day Sweeney will produce a third work comparing the two so that readers might learn the author\u27s preference, if he has one. As it stands, it is difficult to find the author anywhere in the thousands of -words he has written in this particular volume. The distance between Sweeney and his subject is palpable, often painful, particularly in his frequent use of the adjective bellicose to describe the Chiricahuas. Yes, they were that, but they were much more, and Sweeney resists feeling or sensing the complete picture of Mangas Coloradas\u27s Apaches and then portraying them fully through his diction. After all, besides being bellicose, the chief and his people were also husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, aunts, sisters, daughters, mothers, and wives who led lives that included more than the battles Sweeney relates. For example, while Mangas Coloradas was a chief and a respected strategist, he was also the husband and father who, as a tired warrior, had to come back from battle to his family. Who were they and what was that aspect of his life like? Sweeney doesn\u27t elaborate. Had he interviewed Mangas Coloradas\u27s contemporary descendants, they might have added another dimension to this work and possibly helped him present a picture of the total man, not just the renowned fighter. Sadly, the author devotes only a short paragraph of nine lines at the very end of his book to the chief\u27s heirs without mentioning their names. That\u27s too bad, for some of them are today\u27s Chiricahua Apache leaders and others are accomplished in various walks of life. They deserve recognition.
Nonetheless, although this exhaustively thorough book is clearly not written for casual and general readers, it should interest a select audience of history buffs, aficionados, and serious scholars of Chiricahua Apache history and culture. A true test will be its appeal to the Chiricahua Apaches themselves
Pomegranate juice consumption reduces simulated ischemic stroke damage and increases brain antioxidant status in rats
No full textPomegranate phytochemicals / Navindra P. Seeram ... [et al.] -- Antioxidative properties of pomegranate : in vitro studies / Mira Rosenblat and Michael Aviram -- Bioavailability of pomegranate polyphenols / Francisco A. Tom?s-Barber?n, Navindra P. Seeram, and Juan Carlos Esp?n -- Protection against cardiovascular disease / Bianca Fuhrman and Michael Aviram -- Protection against stroke / Marva I. Sweeney-Nixon -- Anticancer potential of pomegranate / Shishir Shishodia ... [et al.] -- Molecular mechanisms of chemoprevention of cancer by pomegranate / Deeba Syed ... [et al.] -- Pomegranate and prostate cancer chemoprevention / John T. Leppert and Allan J. Pantuck -- Assessment of estrogenicity of pomegranate in an in vitro bioassay / Diane M. Harris, Emily Besselink, and Navindra P. Seeram -- Absence of significant estrogenic effects in the postmenopausal population / Michelle P. Warren ... [et al.] -- Antimicrobial activities of pomegranate / G.K. Jayaprakasha, P.S. Negi, B.S. Jena -- Commercialization of pomegranates : fresh fruit, beverages, and botanical extracts / Navindra P. Seeram, Yanjun Zhang, and David Heber -- Pomegranates: a botanical perspective / David W. Still -- Postharvest biology and technology of pomegranates / Adel A. Kader
Correction to:Patient-controlled outpatient follow-up on demand for patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a 2-year randomized controlled trial (Clinical Rheumatology, (2021), 40, 9, (3599-3604), 10.1007/s10067-021-05674-y)
No full textIn the original published version of this article, a co-author Anne-Marie Tetsche Sweeney was excluded in the authorship however the authors agreed to include her as third author since she made a significance contribution to the study, including a first draft of the manuscript. The authorship section has been updated. The original article has been corrected.</p
Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney and its Sources : a Postmodern Case History
No full textBrian Friel's Molly Sweeney (1994) has a theme similar to Synge's The Well of the Saints (1905), a modernist text, but it has a plot based on a case study by anthropologist Oliver Sacks, « To See and Not See ». While exploring the ethics of appropriation in the light of Foucault's « What is an Author ? », this paper establishes Friel's fascination with questions of freedom, perception and irony and defines the form of Molly Sxueeney as postmodernist rather than modernist.On peut comparer Molly Sweeney (1994) de Brian Friel à The Well of the Saints (1905) de J.M. Synge, un texte moderniste, mais il a pour source première une étude de cas contemporaine de l'anthropologue Oliver Sacks « To See and Not See ». Tout en étudiant l'éthique d'appropriation à la lumière de Foucault, cet article analyse la fascination qu'exercent sur Friel les questions de liberté, de perception et d'ironie, et il montre que la forme est postmoderniste plutôt que moderniste.Murray Christopher. Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney and its Sources : a Postmodern Case History. In: Études irlandaises, n°23-2, 1998. pp. 81-98
Effect of pretreatment with an adenosine analogue, N(6)-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA), on stroke outcome in rats
No full textAdenosine A1 receptor agonists, such as N6-cyclohexyladenosine (CHA), N6-(R)-phenylisopropyladenosine (R-PIA), and N 6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA), are neuroprotective when administered prior to a hypoxia-ischemia (H-I). Activation of A1 receptors may also mediate ischemic preconditioning. It was hypothesized, therefore, that a single administration of CPA prior to a H-I insult would provide neuroprotection against H-I induced damage in the rat hippocampus. This thesis examined the neuroprotective response to CPA when it was administered at varying doses and varying time points prior to a H-I insult. Results confirm the neuroprotective effect resulting from activation of adenosine A1 receptors before a H-I insult, against H-I induced damage and suggest a possible therapeutic application for adenosine Al agonists for the prevention of stroke damage. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-02, page: 0574.Adviser: Marva Sweeney-Nixon
Data for Wavelength dependence of efficiency limiting mechanisms in Type-I Mid-infrared GaInAsSb/GaSb lasers
No full textThe efficiency limiting mechanisms in type-I GaInAsSb-based quantum well (QW) lasers, emitting at 2.3 µm, 2.6 µm and 2.9 µm, are investigated. Temperature characterization techniques and measurements under hydrostatic pressure identify an Auger process as the dominant non-radiative recombination mechanism in these devices. The results are supplemented with hydrostatic pressure measurements from three additional type-I GaInAsSb lasers, extending the wavelength range under investigation from 1.85-2.90 μm. Under hydrostatic pressure, contributions from the CHCC and CHSH Auger mechanisms to the threshold current density can be investigated separately. A simple model is used to fit the non-radiative component of the threshold current density, identifying the dominance of the different Auger losses across the wavelength range of operation. The CHCC mechanism is shown to be the dominant non-radiative process at longer wavelengths (> 2 μm). At shorter wavelengths (< 2 μm) the CHSH mechanism begins to dominate the threshold current, as the bandgap approaches resonance with the spin-orbit split-off band. This work was funded by the following grants: (1) Efficient Photonic Devices for Near- and Mid-Infrared Applications (EP/H005587/1); (2) Exploring Short Wavelength Limits for High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers (EP/H050787/1); (3) Realising a solid state photomultiplier and infrared detectors through Bismide containing semiconductors (EP/N021037/1)
Position Location of Remote Bluetooth Devices
No full textThe recent proliferation of Bluetooth Devices has caught the attention of hackers. With Bluetooth devices being put in everything from cell phones to PDAs to laptops, the abuse of this technology could have an even bigger impact than the viruses and malware running rampant on the internet. Bluetooth is a short range wireless technology intended to interconnect consumer electronics devices of all kinds. The same features that make Bluetooth so attractive to manufacturers, also makes it attractive to hackers. Bluetooth devices can quickly setup up ad-hoc networks with other, previously unknown devices. Hackers have started to take advantage of the ease with which a connection can be established along with the average user's lack of computer security knowledge to break into PDAs, cell phones to steal address books and credit card numbers.
One of the largest obstacles that must be overcome in Bluetooth security is the mobility of devices and the relatively short duration of connections. In the Internet, threats can often be traced back to a source, and in many cases the source of the threat can be shut down. However, in a Bluetooth Network devices connect directly to one another, and there are no wires to follow to pinpoint the offending device. This thesis will explore the techniques for the location of Bluetooth Devices. An ideal position location system would be one that operates completely within the Bluetooth Specification. Such a system will be able to use any available Bluetooth Device to find the location of other devices. The primary focus of this thesis will be on such a system, with an overview of traditional radio position location techniques and Bluetooth so that we might gain some insight into how these techniques can be applied to Bluetooth. Data are presented from an extensive set of measurements to relate Bluetooth RSSI and distance on CSR BlueCore02 devices. Finally the results of the data are analyzed to give a rough estimate of the range error that would be incurred in the implementation of such a system.Master of Scienc
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