638 research outputs found
Discovering Southern Criticism in the Works of Kate Chopin
No full textBecause there has never been an adequate literary theory created to define Southern literature, critics often debate what makes a work or author Southern. I have looked at previous theories and, from these, created what I believe is an adequate Southern literary theory. Four major point make up my theory; in Southern literature there is a sense of the defeated nation, an oral tradition, a cultural struggle among race and class, and a sense of boundaries. I have also decided to test my theory on an author whose Southern status is currently being debated, Kate Chopin. Because she is from Missouri, even though her writing is set in Louisiana, many critics feels she is not a Southern author. Using my literary theory, I believe I can probe that her work makes her a Southern author
Computations of Coupled Electronic States in Quantum Dot/Wetting Layer Cylindrical Structures
No full textLes communautés villageoises dans l'évolution rurale britannique à la fin du XVIIIe siècle
No full textKate Tiller, Les communautés villageoises dans l'évolution rurale britannique à la fin du xvrne siècle.
Der Autor überreicht eine Historiographie der « agrarischen Revolution », und legt den Nachdruck auf die letzten Arbeiten, bevor sie die Ergebnisse einer originellen Forschung über die in einer englischen Gemeinschaft vorgekommenen Änderungen vorlegt.Kate Tiller, Village Communities and the Evolution of Rural Britain in the Late Eighteenth Century.
The author presents a historiography of the "rural revolution", emphasizing the results of very recent studies, and then highlights the findings of an original research project on the changes that occurred in an English community.Kate Tiller, Le comunità contadine nell'evoluzione rurale britannica alla fine del XVIII secolo.
L'autore presenta una storiografia della « rivoluzione rurale » ponendo l'accento sull'apporto dei più recenti lavori, prima di indicare i risultati di una ricerca originale sui cambiamenti operati in una comunità inglese.Kate Tiller, Les communautés villageoises dans l'évolution rurale britannique à la fin du XVIIIe siècle.
L'auteur présente une historiographie de « la révolution rurale » en mettant l'accent sur l'apport des tout derniers travaux et avant d'indiquer les résultats d'une recherche originale sur les changements opérés dans une communauté anglaise.Tiller Kate. Les communautés villageoises dans l'évolution rurale britannique à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. In: Annales historiques de la Révolution française, n°315, 1999. Paysanneries et communautés villageoises de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest. pp. 83-95
Value proposition analysis for solid state lighting: A case study of Ahmedali Ahmed Electrical Contracting; Marketing the product in the Kingdom of Bahrain
No full textThe proposition given to a product or service in terms of its worth given by a customer is researched and analysed to find the underlying factors contributing to the value. The study is undertaken to investigate the different factors that lays ground for increased ‘Customer value’ and ‘Product Value’. The research objective is to find the “Value Proposition Analysis for Solid State Lighting: a Case Study AhmedAli Ahmed Electrical Contracting; Marketing the product in the Kingdom of Bahrain” Most businesses generate profits, when the customers give a certain value(s) to the service/product provided by the business entity. This could involve many attributes to consider. The project overlooks in to this value significantly to understand the attributes that collectively contributes to ‘Valued Relation’ between the customer and the business. This is achieved by making effective use of literature suggested by various authors and by employing research strategies to validate the literature through the findings. The research also looks in to the case study organisation to fully understand the capabilities of the company to market the product. Thus, this analysis will be specifically looking in to the value proposition given to Solid State Lighting by the current UK customers and by clients of AhamedAli Ahmed Electrical Contracting, Kingdom of Bahrain. However, this analysis must viewed critically, as the product comes at a premium price and the study will be much centred in the Kingdom of Bahrain and cannot be generalised for the other GCC countries or the Middle East. This study is focused to generate strategies in marketing Solid State Lighting in Bahrain taking A.A.E as the Case Study Organisation understanding the Value Proposition for Solid State Lighting
A life in fiction : how Kate Chopin's biography changes how we interpret her works : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textKate Chopin (1850 1904) is an author whose stories have been used in classrooms and anthologies for at least thirty years. She has become a highly influential feminist author, and her short stories and her novel The Awakening have met much criticism and interpretation. She has been credited by some with creating her stories and characters entirely by imagination. However, when compared to her biography, there are startling similarities, which lead me to believe that she relied on her life for inspiration for most of her works. This can potentially change how her works are interpreted by readers and critics. Also, some assumptions have been made about Chopin's life based on how The Awakening was received. It is important to correct these assumptions because they can change how we look at Chopin as a writer. In my essay, I compare critical articles with conclusion that I have drawn based on biographical information that I have compiled. I also use quotes from Chopin herself to prove that she was not as despondent as she is assumed to have been by some critics.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Rent - seeking trade policy : a time series approach
No full textUsing a time-series approach, the author analyzes the relationship between the extent of rent-seeking trade policy and both political and economic variables. For rent-seeking trade policy, the indicator he uses is the number of foreign-trade regulations passed each year for the benefit of a single firm or industry. The author uses data from Uruguay for 1925-83. Uruguay, which experienced an impressive economic decline, is an outstanding example of a rent-seeking society. After being a wealthy economy in midcentury, it suffered almost complete stagnation, which led to social and policital disintegration by the end of the 1960s. Three decades of restrictive regulations on foreign trade had created a nearly closed economy by the end of the 1960s. It was worth analyzing whether policymakers'great receptiveness to demands for protection could account for Uruguay's decline. Over the period 1925-83, the author finds almost 4,000 laws, decrees, and administrative resolutions that create, maintain, or modify a foreign-trade regulation for the benefit of a single firm or industry. About half of them explicitly identify the petitioner - usually a firm or guild. Since the size of the Uruguayan economy changed over the period studied, the author scales the annual number of regulations by output or exports to measure the extent of rent-seeking trade policy. The author shows that the extent of rent-seeking trade policy increased with discretionary policies and under dictatorship. (In the period studied, there were two stages of democracy - until 1932 and from 1943-72 - and two stages of dictatorship.) He also shows that rent-seeking trade restrictions increased under import-substitution strategies and, more unexpectedly, under active export promotion. This suggests that discretionary power leads to wasteful distribution, whether it is used to support inward- or outward-oriented policies. Finally, the author analyzes the correlation between innovations in the trade policy indicator and innovations in the growth rates of output and exports, with a lag of up to 20 years. Surprisingly, he finds a positive correlation with output growth rates after two or three years. But the correlation becomes negative some years later, particularly in the case of exports. The short-run positive impact on growth rates, together with the surprisingly long time lag before the negative impact, may account for policymakers'receptiveness to demands for protection.Trade Policy,Achieving Shared Growth,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
Race Critical Action Research: 8th Grade Global Studies Teachers Move Beyond the Status Quo to Address Issues of Race and Racism in Our Classrooms
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation.May 2018. Major: Education, Curriculum and Instruction. Advisors: Patricia Avery, J. B. Mayo, Jr.. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 179 pages.Research has shown that despite a recent emphasis on issues of race and racism in US society, White teachers struggle to construct adequate learning environments for their students of Color (Epstein, 2009; Martell, 2013; Sleeter, 2017). Further, Milner (2006) posits that when White teachers lose themselves in the “having of good intentions,” their failure to act enshrines the status quo in classrooms. Using race-critical action research, the author presents the work of a group of White female teacher partners (n=6) who collaborated over two years to critically examine the role of race and racism in their teaching practice. Data included transcripts of group meetings, reflective journals and interviews. Building on a framework of sociocultural and race-critical theories, the author explores the role that resistance and appropriation played as the teacher partners worked to improve their anti-racist teaching practice. Specifically, the teacher partners sought to defy deficit-thinking paradigms, redefine power in the classroom, and create a caring classroom climate. Through sociocultural and race-critical analyses, the author finds evidence of what Lensmire (2010) terms an “ambivalent” White racial identity; one that reveals itself to be both race-evasive and race-visible (Jupp and Lensmire, 2016) when enacting anti-racist teacher practice. The author concludes that collaboration and critical reflection are essential conditions for surfacing these paradoxes and deepening anti-racist teacher practice.Andrews van Horne, Kate. (2018). Race Critical Action Research: 8th Grade Global Studies Teachers Move Beyond the Status Quo to Address Issues of Race and Racism in Our Classrooms. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/198996
New Deep-Blue-Emitting Ce-Doped A<sub>4- m</sub>B<sub>n</sub>C<sub>19+2 m</sub>X<sub>29+ m</sub> (A = Sr, La; B = Li; C = Si, Al; X = O, N; 0 ≤ m ≤ 1; 0 ≤ n ≤ 1) Phosphors for High-Color-Rendering Warm White Light-Emitting Diodes
No full textA new sialon Eu3.60LiSi13.78Al6.03O6.82N22.59 has been discovered via the single-particle diagnosis approach. Its crystal structure (space group P3m1) was solved and refined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. It has the interesting feature of two types of disorder at the Eu2 site: positional disorder (Eu2a/Eu2b) and substitutional disorder with (Si/Al)2(O/N). The structure is generalized to the formula A4-mBnC19+2mX29+m (A = Sr, La, Eu, Ce; B = Li; C = Si, Al; X = O, N; 0 ≤ m ≤ 1; 0 ≤ n ≤ 1), of which Sr3.61LiSi14.27Al5.61O6.19N23.25 (Sr-sialon, m = 0.41, n = 1) and La2.85Sr0.76LiSi14.86Al4.93O2.89N26.51 (LaSr-sialon, m = 0.40, n = 1) are two examples that have been obtained as a single-phase powder. Sr-sialon:Eu and LaSr-sialon:Eu both show blue to yellow emission, depending on the Eu concentration, whereas Sr-sialon:1% Ce shows a deep-blue emission band centered at 422 nm with a full width at half-maximum of 80 nm and an internal quantum efficiency of 80% (λex = 355 nm). The latter phosphor has very good thermal stability of both emission intensity and color. A white light-emitting diode (LED) containing the newly discovered Sr-sialon:5% Ce as the blue phosphor component shows excellent color-rendering indices (Ra = 96 and R12 = 97) with a correlated color temperature of 4255 K. This indicates that Sr-sialon:Ce is a highly promising deep-blue phosphor for illumination grade white LEDs.Accepted Author ManuscriptChemE/Product and Process Engineerin
On the relations between the bandgap, structure and composition of the M–Si–N (M = alkali, alkaline earth or rare-earth metal) nitridosilicates
No full textRelations between the bandgap and structural properties and composition of the M–Si–N nitridosilicates (M = alkali, alkaline earth or rare earth metal) have been obtained, using experimental data collected from literature; and qualitative models are presented to explain the observed trends. Compounds with a higher degree of condensation, i.e. a higher Si/N ratio, generally have longer M–N bonds and shorter Si–N bonds. The observations can be explained based on the effective charge of N, dependent on its coordination with Si (NSix). With increasing Si/N ratio the coordination number of N by Si increases, making the effective charge of the nitrogen atom less negative, resulting in a longer and less covalent M–N bond. This also shifts the N 2p levels down in energy, lowering the top of the valence band (mainly composed of N orbitals); while decreasing the Si–N distance shifts the bottom of the conduction band (mainly composed of Si and M orbitals) upward. Some nitridosilicates show deviations to the general trends, such as γ-Si3N4 and several Li-containing compounds. These deviations have been discussed and possible explanations have been given based on peculiarities in their structural characteristics.ChemE/Product and Process EngineeringRST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energ
TODAY, AT THE DUMP, THE WORLD IS IN THE BIN
No full textShort story included in 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop.
“If 22 Fictions is an argument for the short form, it is winning. A book worth studying.”
— Isabel Waidner, Goldsmiths Prize winning author of Sterling Karat Gold and Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
A curated selection drawn from the first five years of two indie bookseller-run projects—Madrid’s Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize and London’s Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize—these 22 Fictions feature Purim celebrations, multiple Stuart Halls, a kidnapping, gender injustice, an aeroplane fleeing a volcano, a chicken shop menu, climate change, a shaved horse, activism, and much besides, all the while roaming from a Cornish farming village to a Paris basement, a hotel bar, an island with a steep hill, a location deep within the internet, a family dinner table and further.
Proudly internationalist and profoundly imaginative, the 22 stories in this vital anthology are wild, innovative, funny, sad, harrowing and tender. Together they celebrate the energy and diversity of short fiction writing today, pushing the boundaries of the form into new territory and bringing together a radical new generation of writers from across the globe.
Featuring work from:
Shola Von Reinhold, Leeor Ohayon, Tom Benn, Alice Haworth-Booth, N G F Clark, Danielle Giles, Francesca Reece, Melody Razak, Mariana Roa Oliva, Giovanna Iozzi, Suey Kweon, K. Lockwood Jefford, Katie Hale, Max Lury, Jay Gao, Aoife Inman, Andrea Mason, Aisha Phoenix, Isha Karki, Jack Houston, Siri Katinka Valdez, Rajasree Variyar.
Foreword by Joanna Walsh and an introduction by Wendy Erskine, former judges of the two prizes.
Edited by Kate Ellis and Robert Loyko-Greer, published by CHEERIO.
“Bold and emboldening — each story here engages with the form in new and rewarding ways.”
— Gurnaik Johal, author of We Move and Saraswati
“Partnering with two of the world’s most forward-thinking booksellers to publish the razor-edge of contemporary writing speaks exactly to the DIY spirit CHEERIO was founded on. A dream.”
– Darren Biabowe Barnes, Editorial Director of CHEERIO Publishin
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