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e.e. cummings, Poetry Reading, Part 2
No full textEdward Estlin e. e. Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he sometimes signed his name, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. This undated recording captures cummings during his visit to Eastern Michigan University. There is no commentary between poems.https://commons.emich.edu/performances/1016/thumbnail.jp
The application of the selected elements of E.E. Gordon’s Theory of Music Learning in Kazimierz Wielki University students own research in Bydgoszcz
No full textTheory of music learning, according to Gordon, is mostly directed at teachers. The text aims at showing the aspect of the application of research on E. E. Gordon’s theory into early music education teacher’s professional training. The author recognises the importance of shaping research competences of future teachers as they help students use not only practical (pedagogical), but also methodological and empirical work of E.E. Gordon’s theory. The text presents the reports from research on the application of E.E. Gordon’s Theory of Music Learning, carried out by students of early school and music education. It is important to emphasise the fact that research has been conducted according to Gordon’s procedures. Researching the application of theory of music learning refers to its selected elements within the range of application of research problems, theoretical implications and selected diagnostics solutions in music education (also E.E. Gordon’s tools). The main idea of the text revolves around more and more popular aspect of making university and teachers training relations very practical (both formal and informal). Such expectations are taken into consideration in Muzopolis project described in this text. Muzopolis from its begining has been the field of practical and empirical application of the elements of E.E. Gordon’s theory with the use of staff and student team cooperating in the Faculty of Pedagogy and Music environmen
Cielesność i ciało w E.E. Olgi Tokarczuk
No full textOlga Tokarczuk’s novel E.E. apart from the fact that it is the story of a 15-year-old girl with mediumistic abilities and her family is also affacted by the issue of corporeality. Especially inspiring, valuable cognitively and imoprtant from a perspective of this article seem to be the corporeality presentation of two main characters – Erna Eltzner and her mother. This article containing an in-deph reflection on the issue of corporeality of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel. The aim of the work is to analyze and interpret showed by Tokarczuk images of corporeality related to psychic and personality domain of the main characters. The main thesis is the assumption that corporeality is essential for the novel about the fate of Erna Eltzner. The aim is to look and subject the interpretation of the presented by Tokarczuk depiction of corporeality, capturing its function, reflection on the cosequences of the used way of imagery as well as to analyze what is the connection between the corporeality of the main character and gaining by her identity and independence. The methodology adopted in the project is based on the elements of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theory as well as the conception of somatopoetics by Anna Łebkowska. The essay’s author on the basis of somatopoetics theory brings us closer the functioning of the body as an interpretive category not just as a subject of literaturę, as well as using the tools created by somatopoetics examines various aspects of the manifestation of the category of corporeality in the novel
An assessment of procedures to remove exogenous Sr before 87Sr/86Sr analysis of wet archaeological wool textiles
No full textStrontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) has been employed as a provenancing tool for archaeological wool textiles. To date, the effect of post-depositional (soil burial environment) contamination on keratin samples, which contain ∼ppm concentrations of Sr, has not been rigorously investigated. We compared published methods for removing exogenous Sr from keratinous textiles, using either: (1) compressed N2 gas, (2) HF(aq) solution (with and without a strong oxidising agent to remove dyestuff) or (3) organic solvents. 87Sr/86Sr ratios and Sr contents were determined in undyed and madder-dyed/alum-mordanted moieties of the same wool textile, buried for up to three years in contrasting environments (marine sediment/fenland bog), and two archaeological textiles recovered in Iceland (one typical and one atypical of local manufacture). Undyed experimental samples had low Sr contents (0.07–0.29 ppm) that were increased by both dyeing (0.14–8.92 ppm) and soil burial (0.11–15.01 ppm). The efficacy of Sr removal was: HF(aq) + oxidising agent > organic solvents > HF(aq) > compressed N2. Unburied samples showed little variation in 87Sr/86Sr ratio between cleaning methods (0.00006–0.00035); buried samples showed greater variation (0.00257–0.00713). Archaeological samples showed Sr contents greater than experimental soil burials (1–118 ppm), and 87Sr/86Sr values consistent with Icelandic groundwater (0.70357–0.70540). No cleaning methods retrieved original (unburied and undyed) 87Sr/86Sr ratios except treatment with compressed N2 in undyed samples. Exogenous Sr from the short term soil burial environment is probably mostly present as particulates. We conclude that 87Sr/86Sr ratios of archaeological wool textiles recovered from wet burial environments do not accurately reflect wool provenance even after cleaning with the methods investigated
Investigation into the functional properties of cotton, wool, and denim textile materials finished with chitosan and the use of chitosan in textile-reinforced composites and medical textiles
No full textThe interest in environment-friendly production technologies has significantly increased the production of functional textile products that protect the environment and human health. In this chapter, chitosan, which is a natural biopolymer obtained from shrimp, is characterized and its antimicrobial activity against bacteria and yeast species is determined. Chitosan was coated on cotton, wool, and for the first time on denim fabrics (99% cotton and 1% elastane) to reveal how the antibacterial activity of shrimp chitosan has changed after it was coated on textile materials. The antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus was investigated comparatively by qualitative and quantitative methods before and after washing. In order to improve the washing resistance of the shrimp chitosan on textile materials, chitosan-acrylic binder coatings were prepared for the first time. Chitosan can be used as a good antibacterial agent in the production of nonwashable, disposable medical textiles and skin contact textiles both alone and in composites. © 2020 Elsevier Inc
Squaring the self: versions of transcendentalism in "The enormous room"
No full textE. E. Cummings’ links with the tradition of American transcendentalism have been much commented upon since comparisons between him and Ralph Waldo Emerson were first drawn by writers like James Dougherty in Landmarks of American Writing and Harold McCarthy in The Expatriate Perspective. These critics observed how Cummings, in his avant-garde poetry and painting and in The Enormous Room, his autobiographical account of his incarceration during World War I, advocates an Emersonian reverence for the inviolability of the individual soul, its ideal potential, and its resistance to society’s corrosive influence.Final article publishe
Mark Twain\u27s Humor: Critical Essays
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Introduction / David E.E. Sloane -- Part I. The early writings of Mark Twain : the growth of the comedian -- \u27My voice is still for Setchell\u27 : a background study of \u27Jim Smiley and his jumping frog\u27 / Edgar M. Branch -- Burlesque travel literature and Mark Twain\u27s Roughing it / Franklin R. Rogers -- From the old Southwest / Pascal Covici, Jr. -- A curious Republican / Louis J. Budd -- Toward the novel / David E.E. Sloane -- Part II. The middle career of Mark Twain from Tom Sawyer to Pudd\u27nhead Wilson : the comedian as major author -- Novels of the week : The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Athenaeum -- On the structure of Tom Sawyer / Walter Blair -- Mark Twain / William Dean Howells -- Trowbridge and Clemens / Rufus A. Coleman -- Mustangs without method / Blackwood\u27s magazine -- Mark Twain and the old time subscription book / George Ade -- Mark Twain on the lecture platform / Will M. Clemens -- Life reviews Huckleberry Finn / Durant Da Ponte -- Huckleberry Finn : the book we love to hate / Leslie A. Fiedler -- A sound heart and a deformed conscience / Henry Nash Smith -- A Connecticut Yankee anticipated : Max Adeler\u27s Fortunate island / Edward F. Foster -- Yankee slang / James M. Cox -- I kind of love small game : Mark Twain\u27s library of literary hogwash / Alan Gribben -- The American claimant : reclamation of a farce / Clyde Grimm -- Mark Twain -- an intimate memory / Henry Watterson -- The book hunter [review of Pudd\u27nhead Wilson] / The Idler -- In re \u27Pudd\u27nhead Wilson\u27 / Martha McCulloch Williams -- \u27The tales he couldn\u27t tell\u27 : Mark Twain, race and culture at the century\u27s end : a social context for Pudd\u27nhead Wilson / Shelley Fisher Fiskin -- Part III. The later career of Mark Twain : the comedian as a cultural representative -- Mark Twain : an inquiry / William Dean Howells -- The international fame of Mark Twain / Archibald Henderson -- An inspired critic / Edith Wyatt -- The anecdotal side of Mark Twain / Ladies\u27 Home Journal -- 3-Mark Twain / A.C. Ward -- Review of Tom Sawyer abroad / The Academy -- \u27Hadleyburg\u27 : Mark Twain\u27s dual attack on banal theology and banal literature / Susan K. Harris -- Is the Philippine policy of the administration just? / John Kendrick Bangs and Mark Twain -- Reconstructing the \u27imagination mill\u27 : the mystery of Mark Twain\u27s late works / Susanne Weil -- Coming back to humor : the comic voice in Mark Twain\u27s autobiography / Michael J. Kiskis -- \u27The mysterious stranger\u27 : absence of the female in Mark Twain biography / Laura E. Skandera-Trombley.https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/english-books/1009/thumbnail.jp
The Impact of Computational Uncertainties on the Enantioselectivity Predictions: A Microkinetic Modeling of Ketone Transfer Hydrogenation with a Noyori‐type Mn‐diamine Catalyst
No full textSelectivity control is one of the most important functions of a catalyst. In asymmetric catalysis the enantiomeric excess (e.e.) is a property of major interest, with a lot of effort dedicated to developing the most enantioselective catalyst, understanding the origin of selectivity, and predicting stereoselectivity. Herein, we investigate the relationship between predicted selectivity and the uncertainties in the computed energetics of the catalytic reaction mechanism obtained by DFT calculations in a case study of catalytic asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) of ketones with an Mn-diamine catalyst. Data obtained from our analysis of DFT data by microkinetic modeling is compared to results from experiment. We discuss the limitations of the conventional reductionist approach of e.e. estimation from assessing the enantiodetermining steps only. Our analysis shows that the energetics of other reaction steps in the reaction mechanism have a substantial impact on the predicted reaction selectivity. The uncertainty of DFT calculations within the commonly accepted energy ranges of chemical accuracy may reverse the predicted e.e. with the non-enantiodetermining steps contributing to e.e. deviations of up to 25 %.</p
Adaptive thermal comfort opportunities for dwellings: Providing thermal comfort only when and where needed in dwellings in the Netherlands
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