16,265 research outputs found
"Ever Devotedly Yours:" The Whitlock-Howells Correspondence
No full textW. D. Howells is known for his encouragement of other authors. This article, largely based upon fifteen manuscript letters in the Rutgers Library, tells us about the relationship between Howells and the American author, Brand Whitlock (1869-1937)
[Puffing Billy Locomotive, 1813-1814]
No full textCard photograph with photographic print inset of the ''Puffing Billy'' locomotive and descriptive text. The locomotive is shown facing right, with two railroad workers operating the locomotive.Recto: [imprinted] Puffing Billy, Published by L.L. Whitlock, Special Correspondent and Advertising Agent for the Iron Age. ''Puffing Billy'' was built in 1813, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for Christopher Bracket, Esq., proprietor of Wylam Collieries. It is claimed to be the first traction locomotive ever built, and was in successful operation until 1862. [advertising text not transcribed
The Curious Case of Sherman M. Stanage: The Rise of Free Speech and Activism on College Campuses in 1960s America
No full textHetero-ever-after: Homonormative happiness for gay and lesbian characters on US network television towards and after Marriage Equality.
No full textThe Supreme Court’s decision on Marriage Equality legalised same sex marriage across the United States, and marked the culmination of decades of legal struggle, political partisanship and social activism. This thesis examines how network television has used same sex marriage as a happy ending for its gay and lesbian characters, and how this perpetuates a narrative that Marriage Equality signifies a happy ending for the LGBTQ rights movement. By using theories from cultural, sociological and economic fields this thesis constructs network television as neoliberal, and examines its output not just as an artistic product, but as a reflection of the political positions of its audiences and its financiers. By drawing on the works of Sara Ahmed and Lisa Duggan, this work argues that the connections made between marriage and happiness, privilege homonormativity as happiness causing and casts queerness as the source of gay unhappiness. The programmes analysed portray their characters’ problems as solved by marriage, reinforcing the idea of Marriage Equality as a solution to the problems of the LGBTQ community. However, as the political landscape has changed, so has the way network television engages with gay and lesbian unhappiness, allowing space for its gay characters to experience unhappiness as an impetus for political action.</p
Microfinance Impact Evaluation: A Managerial Perspective
No full textThe objective of this concept note was to introduce Impact Evaluation and highlight its need and importance during these turbulent times. As it turns out that Impact Evaluation holds promise to a host of benefits to the MFIs ranging from consumer insights to launching of new products and services and from better reporting standards to performance measurement. It will gain further prominence in coming days as focus of various stakeholders undergoes drastic shift towards social performance and understanding the consumer behavior. Not only it will be a strategic exercise but it will be adopted as a risk mitigation tool for identifying loopholes and appropriate measures to plug them.Microfinance, Impact Evaluation,
OAPEN-UK: an Open Access Business Model for Scholarly Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences
No full textThis paper presents the initial findings of OAPEN-UK, a UK research project gathering evidence on the social and technological impacts of an open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences
Tea Tales – India’s ever evolving chai culture
No full textAs we observed International Tea Day on May 21, to peek into the vibrant history of chai and chai tapris in India, Village Square spoke to Arup K Chatterjee, professor of English at OP Jindal Global University. He is the author of widely acclaimed books including, The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways and The Great Indian Railways
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
Parieto-frontal architecture, connectivity and behavioral representations in rodents
No full textThe posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and frontal motor cortices are important for a variety of cognitive processes including sensorimotor integration, decision-making, planning and execution goal-directed actions. Across mammals, PPC and frontal motor cortices are strongly connected and form the parietofrontal network, where ‘mirror’ neurons, perhaps the most famous example of sensorimotor integration, were first discovered in primates. Since rodents are serving an ever-greater role in studying the cellular mechanisms of cognitive processes in PPC and frontal cortical areas, the work in this thesis aims to describe the anatomical and functional properties of this network in both mice and rats. The first study in the thesis provides an anatomical description of the mouse PPC relative to the neighboring extrastriate areas, since PPC in mice is poorly defined, which confounds the interpretation of functional studies. I show that, like in rats, the mouse PPC is divided into anatomically distinguishable medial, lateral and posterior subdivisions (mPPC, lPPC and PtP, respectively), and that each of these areas partly overlaps with anterior aspects of multiple extrastriate areas. Second, I investigate whether the connections of rat PPC with frontal midline cortices are topographically organized as reported in primates. The results reveal that PPC is strongly connected with secondary motor cortex (M2) in a topographical manner, such that mPPC is preferentially connected with the most posterior portion of M2, whereas lPPC and PtP connect with the intermediate anterior-posterior portion. Connections with orbitofrontal cortex showed a medial-to-lateral trend, where mPPC preferentially connects with the medial half, including the medial and ventrolateral subregions. lPPC and PtP are preferentially connected with the medial and central portion of the ventrolateral orbitofrontal cortex. The topographical organization of connections with M2 indicates heterogeneity in both PPC and M2 in rodents, which prompts the final study in the thesis probing whether neurons in mouse M2 and PPC encode performed as well as observed actions like in primates. Using in vivo calcium imaging, we show that both M2 and PPC stably encode a variety of naturalistic behaviors when performed, but that such responses do not occur when the same animals observed the same behaviors being performed by another animal. In summary, I have (i) defined PPC anatomically in the mouse and (ii) shown that the rat PPC subregions are reciprocally connected with frontal midline cortices in a topographical manner, like in primates. (iii) In mice, neurons in M2 and PPC reliably encode performed but not observed behaviors, suggesting that that there are limits to the functional similarity of PPC and frontal cortices in rodents and primates
Worst Law School Advice Ever
No full textThis Essay reflects upon multiple pieces of advice Kahn encountered while in law school. The author kindly rejects early advice he received—dubbed the “worst law school advice ever”—and affirms another—suggesting that a narrow course of study in law school may strengthen a student’s knowledge of a specific area of the law, but can limit the understanding of the law as in operates in whole. Kahn provides his own advice, suggesting instead a broad course of study that can prepare a future attorney to better deal with the rapid speed at which any given field of law can, and will, change
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