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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Members at Sam Rayburn Memorial Student Center
No full textA black and white negative showing members of theAlpha Kappa Alpha Sorority on the balcony and stairs of the Sam Rayburn Memorial Student Center. Pictured from left to right: Helen Mackey, Juna Webster, Nadini Harris, Jacqueline Solomon, Barbara Hurrington, Wanda Cook, Mae Austin, Carla Beechwood, Judy Gaut, Rita Lincoln, RoeJeana Solomon, Helen Gallon, Geraldine McMichael, Portia McBeth, Tommie Dabis, Jacqueline Jackson, Glenda McKissic, Sheridan Shaw, Gloria Wilcox, Mildred Francis, Judy Ross, Rita Williams, Diann Hynson, Linda Jackson, Ida Nunn, Ada Lockett, Mildred Smith, Celeste Clayton, Erma Caldwell, Brenda Lester, Vivian Brown, Joyce M. Fields, Sylvesta Clayton Alexander, and Johnnie Faye James.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-univ-photos-browse-all/1085/thumbnail.jp
The association between selected corporate attributes and management incentives for voluntary accounting disclosure
No full textTypescript (photocopy).A major argument in favor of the regulation of accounting standards is that voluntarily disclosure alone is not able to enhance public welfare. This research has examined the incentives of those who do voluntarily disclose accounting information when not mandated to do so. According to the major theory of this research, signaling theory, managers of higher quality firms have incentives to signal to the market their higher quality to distinguish themselves from average or lower quality firms. One form of signaling is voluntary disclosure of information about a firm's operation. Signaling theory is tested in two voluntary accounting disclosure scenarios: release of line of business data, and disclosure of management forecasts. The research design features both a market response analysis, to determine how the market perceives the disclosure signals of management, and a cross-sectional analysis which compares firm attributes of disclosing firms. Three competing hypotheses: a) lack of full disclosure, b) differential proprietary costs, and c) expected changes in financing, production, and investment decisions, which offer alternative explanations are also examined. The expected finding that disclosing firms are better stock market performers than nondisclosing firms was not supported by tests of abnormal returns, security return deviations, and beta values. It appears the market makes no measureable distinction between the disclosure act and the content of this disclosure. The results of cross-sectional analyses of the management forecasts and line-of-business disclosure issue indicate that there are differences of firm value characteristics between disclosing firms and nondisclosing firms, but not in all years. An even stronger finding is that disclosure appears to be accompanies by other firm dynamics. Specifically, firms which disclose do so in association with their financing, production, and investment opportunities
From “where I live” to “my slave songs”: Integrity and Extension in Wanda Coleman’s Poetry
No full textThis article discusses Wanda Coleman’s poetry in terms of two interconnected categories which launched the studies of black literature by Craig Werner: “integrity” and “extension”. These categories are assumed to correspond to the standard critical perception of Coleman’s oeuvre as content- and form-oriented, respectively, where the former pre-conditions the latter. However, the implemented concepts not only demonstrate how well-acquainted the poet was with the everyday ghetto lives of poor black women and with multiple forms of discrimination against them (“integrity”), but also reveal her experimental attitude to language and to formal dimensions of poetry (“extension”). Also, a close reading of Coleman’s protracted series of American jazz sonnets and her “Retro Rogue Anthology” poems reveals that this formal strategy extended her attention to a new subject matter (i.e., history, culture, and black identity), perceived and presented from a collective black perspective. Eventually, Coleman’s re-writing of white classic poems bears the marks of the strategy of Signifyin(g) combined with the iconoclastic tradition pioneered by Friedrich [email protected] Kamionowski is an Associate Professor at the University of Białystok. His Ph.D. dissertation entitled New Wine in Old Bottles. The Virtuality of the Presented World in Angela Carter’s Fiction (1999) was written under supervision of Professor Jacek Wiśniewski, who had kindly agreed to take the Polish literature graduate under his scholarly wing. Jerzy Kamionowski is the author of Głosy z “dzikiej strefy” (Voices from the “wild zone”) (2011) on poetry of three women writers of the Black Arts Movement: Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde, and From the House of the Slave to the Home of the Brave. The Motif of Home in Poetry by Black Women since the late 1960s (2019). Presently, he takes interest in the poetry of the post-BAM generation, as well as the representations of the Middle Passage in African American literature.University of Białystok, PolandBaraka, A. (Jones, L.) & Fundi (Billy Abernathy).1970. In Our Terribleness (Some elements and meaning in black style). Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.Browne, M.L. 2022. “Introduction.” Coleman, Wanda. Heart First into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets. Boston: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 1979. Mad Dog Black Lady. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 1983. Imagoes. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 1988. On Theloniousism. Caliban 14: 67–79.Coleman, W. 1998. Bathwater Wine. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 2001. Mercurochrome: New Poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.Coleman, W. 2022. Heart First into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets. Boston: Black Sparrow Press.Collins, P. H. 1991. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images. 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Doing Battle with the Wolf: A Critical Introduction to Wanda Coleman’s Poetry. Black American Literature Forum 23.3: 539–554.Magistrale, T. & Ferreira, P. 1990. Sweet Mama Wanda Tells Fortunes: An Interview with Wanda Coleman. Black American Literature Forum 24.3: 491–507.Mitchell, W. J. T. 2012. Seeing Through Race. Cambridge, Massachusetts/London: Harvard University Press.Nietzsche, F. 2003. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ. Trans. by R. J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books.Ryan, J. 2015. The Transformative Poetics of Wanda Coleman’s “American Sonnets”. African American Review 48.4: 415–429.Pereira, M. 2010. Wanda Coleman. In: M. Pereira (ed.). Into a Light Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets, 9–44. Athens: University of Georgia Press.Sanchez, S. 1969. Home Coming. Detroit: Broadside Press.Werner, Craig. 1986. New Democratic Vistas. In: J. Weixlemann & Ch. J. Fontenot (eds.). Belief vs. Theory in Black American Literary Criticism, 47–84. Greenwood, Florida: The Penkevill Publishing Company.Wiśniewski, M. 2014. Introduction. In: M. Wiśniewski (ed.) Ex(o/e)rcising Modernism, 7–9. Warszawa: SWPS.41 (2/2023)355
Felton M. Johnston with Wanda Johnston and two unidentified men.
No full text[Hawaiian Statehood Bill]; 2 copieshttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1609/thumbnail.jp
Felton M. Johnston with Wanda Johnston and unidentified couple.
No full text[Hawaiian Statehood Bill]; 1 copyhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1610/thumbnail.jp
Mobile Press-Register sleeve MP0114076
No full textSchool board meeting / Mae Eanes Middle School 1901 Hurtel Street / School board meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. at Mae Eanes (first night meeting) / Regular school board meeting, but fireworks likely due to location. / Karen Johnson / Mamie [Taylor] / Wanda ? / Evelyn Williams / Bob Smith representative of local NAACP / ? Muhammad / [Work order and agenda included
Felton M. Johnston with wife, Wanda, and Felton M. Johnston Jr.
No full textHandwritten notation: \u27Mount [illegible]\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1066/thumbnail.jp
Cultural Responsiveness In Stem Program Planning, Implementation, And Evaluation
No full textThe recent increase in STEM and science-based programs targeted to minority students must be met with appropriate culturally responsive practices (Johnson, 2005). The current project was designed to investigate ways in which program evaluators and staff implement culturally responsive practices. Evaluators across the country and program staff in New York, California, and Texas were invited to participate in a multiphase concept mapping project to 1) Brainstorm culturally responsive practices, 2) Sort or organize these statements according to themes of their own choosing, and 3) Rate each statement on importance and feasibility with respect to their practice. We summarize results of the structured conceptualization effort in comparison to the theoretical literature, discuss statistical differences between perceptions of Importance and Feasibility of practices, and suggest activities that consolidate and align practices as conceptualized by each group in a way that makes principles actionable
Malizna zabkai Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2022, sp. nov.
No full textMalizna zabkai sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: C06072E7-627B-46E4-A3F8-E16F94AE48DA Fig. 33 Diagnosis This species is similar to Malizna admirabilis Wesołowska, 2021. It differs in the abdomen pattern (compare Fig. 33A with Wesołowska 2021: figs 56–57), the absence of epigynal pockets (present in M. admirabilis) and by the seminal ducts, which are straight in M. admirabilis but coiled in this newly described species. Etymology This species is named after a friend of the first author, Marek Żabka, the famous Polish arachnologist and specialist in Australian salticids. Material examined Holotype IVORY COAST • ♀; Lamto; 2 Dec. 1975; “forêt de marigot salé, sur branches”; MNHN. Description Male Unknown. Female MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.7, width 1.2, height 0.9. Eye field length 0.8, anterior width 1.1, posterior width 1.0. Abdomen length 1.7, width 1.3. General appearance as in Fig. 33A–B. Small thiratoscirtine spider. CARAPACE. High, abruptly sloping posteriorly, dark brown with thin, lighter median streak on thoracic part, eye field black. Thin dense brown hairs on carapace, especially dense on eye field, anterior median eyes encircled by yellowish grey scales. Chelicerae unidentate, light brown, sternum and mouthparts yellow. ABDOMEN. Oval, greyish beige with median serrated streak, covered with brown hairs, venter yellowish. Spinnerets yellow with dark lateral lines. LEGS. Light brown, femora slightly darker. Four pairs of ventral spines on tibia I, two pairs on metatarsus. Palp with two retrolateral spines (Fig. 33C). EPIGYNE. With V-shaped posterior edge (Fig. 33D), and shrunken scapus clothed in long dense hairs. Internal structure as in Fig. 33E, seminal ducts weakly sclerotized in initial part, forming a loop. Distribution Only known from the type locality, Lamto, Ivory Coast.Published as part of Wesołowska, Wanda & Russell-Smith, Anthony, 2022, Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J. - C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae), pp. 1-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 841 (1) on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943, http://zenodo.org/record/719535
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