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The purpose of this study is to determine what effect six real women in Jack London's life had upon the development of fictional women found in thirty-eight of London's short stories. The six women were Flora Wellman London, Bess Maddern London, Charmian Kittredge London, Anna Strunsky, Mabel Applegarth, and Ina Coolbrith. The study will reveal previously unpublished information about these women based on letters, interviews with people who knew them, and previously uncited newspaper and magazine articles. It will also offer, in most cases, the first chronologically organized in-depth biographical profiles ever recorded of these women. The major attributes of these women were scrutinized, their behavior patterns and physical appearances were chronicled, and their relations both with and independent of Jack London were analyzed. The effect the above mentioned six women had on Jack London was that they significantly helped cause him to portray women in a particular (and unusual) way.Thirty-eight of London's short stories which feature female protagonists were analyzed. These fictional females were studied for attributes, behavior patterns, and appearances. The final step was to correlate the attributes and characteristics of the fictional women to those of the real women.An overview of the entire study reveals three key points: (1) although usually portrayed as very masculine and independent, Jack London was a person whose philosophies, educational development, and political viewpoints were greatly influenced by the six women focused upon in this study; (2) strong evidence suggests that twenty-eight of the fictional women in the thirty-eight short stories which featured major female protagonists were modeled upon either the six real women focused upon in this study or upon other real women (Freda Moloof, Mrs. Hans Nelson whom London knew during his lifetime; and (3) although the general critical opinion regarding London's failure to create a series of believable fictional women is still valid, it is not absolute; some of the women whom London created in his short stories were modeled upon real women in his life, and their reflected real characteristics are vivid enough to make them powerful, three-dimensional, believable characters.

My thesis research investigated monoterpene responses in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) to different agents to better understand how these responses may influence the spread of the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins; MPB) in the boreal forest. The results support that monoterpenes are inducible responses in jack pine. In the first study, methyl jasmonate application elicited the greatest response in juvenile and mature trees suggesting that jasmonic acid plays a role in jack pine defence responses. In the cross-induction study, I found evidence of an increase in resistance to Grosmannia clavigera with prior jack pine budworm defoliation (Choristoneura pinus pinus Freeman; JPBW). In contrast, needle monoterpenes greatly increased after G. clavigera inoculation and continued to increase during JPBW defoliation; however, JPBW increased its feeding rate to compensate for a change in host quality. Overall, monoterpene induction in jack pine depended on the agent(s) involved and their order. The systemic responses that were observed may have implications for MPB spread in the boreal forest. / Forest Biology and Managment

Esta dissertação analisa duas obras não ficcionais de Jack London: O povo do abismo (publicada em 1903) e O cruzeiro do Snark (publicada em 1911). Escritas em um período cuja construção da etnografia não havia sido ainda sistematicamente pensada, buscamos interpretar nessas obras algumas características de narrativas etnográficas, a partir da antropologia interpretativa. São observados, como suporte teórico, os preceitos do exercício etnográfico, segundo autores como Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski e Roberto DaMatta. Para que contextualizemos esta pesquisa, são abordadas as realidades socioculturais dos Estados Unidos durante o período de vida de Jack London (1876 – 1916), assim como as características da antropologia no final do século XIX e início do século XX. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-11-12T17:04:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Marcos Mantovani.pdf: 8345127 bytes, checksum: db1b4a86f0e08f59fd3d57c972891ad5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-12T17:04:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Marcos Mantovani.pdf: 8345127 bytes, checksum: db1b4a86f0e08f59fd3d57c972891ad5 (MD5) / This dissertation analyses two non-fiction books written by Jack London: The people of the abyss (published in 1903) and The cruise of the Snark (published in 1911). Written over a period during which ethnography’s construction hadn’t been systematically elaborated yet, we aim to interpret these books as having some characteristics of ethnographic narratives, according to the interpretative anthropology. As theoretical support, the precepts of ethnographic exercise are observed, according to authors like Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski and Roberto DaMatta. To establish the context of this research, we analyze the socio-cultural realities of the USA during the life of Jack London (1876 – 1916), as well as the characteristics of anthropology at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th.

Esta dissertação analisa duas obras não ficcionais de Jack London: O povo do abismo (publicada em 1903) e O cruzeiro do Snark (publicada em 1911). Escritas em um período cuja construção da etnografia não havia sido ainda sistematicamente pensada, buscamos interpretar nessas obras algumas características de narrativas etnográficas, a partir da antropologia interpretativa. São observados, como suporte teórico, os preceitos do exercício etnográfico, segundo autores como Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski e Roberto DaMatta. Para que contextualizemos esta pesquisa, são abordadas as realidades socioculturais dos Estados Unidos durante o período de vida de Jack London (1876 – 1916), assim como as características da antropologia no final do século XIX e início do século XX. / This dissertation analyses two non-fiction books written by Jack London: The people of the abyss (published in 1903) and The cruise of the Snark (published in 1911). Written over a period during which ethnography’s construction hadn’t been systematically elaborated yet, we aim to interpret these books as having some characteristics of ethnographic narratives, according to the interpretative anthropology. As theoretical support, the precepts of ethnographic exercise are observed, according to authors like Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski and Roberto DaMatta. To establish the context of this research, we analyze the socio-cultural realities of the USA during the life of Jack London (1876 – 1916), as well as the characteristics of anthropology at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th.

The fact that Jack London's novels seem to fall into two classes--those which he wrote for money and those which he wrote to deliver a social message--has led to this study of his life and novels. It is the aim of this thesis to show that his life was one of conflict between individualism and socialism and that this conflict is reflected to a varying degree in his novels.

The present study is concerned with the relation of the existent socio-economic family status to the school status of twenty-four third and fourth grade pupils in the Jermyn, Texas public school.

LD2668 .T4 1966 S83 / Master of Science

Syftet med denna uppsats är att reda ut hur huvudgestalterna i Sara Beischers roman Jag ska egentligen inte jobba här (2012) och Jack Hildéns roman Vi, vi vaktmästare (2014) formar identiteter utifrån arbetet samt hur de ser på sig själva utanför arbetet. Detta gör jag genom att utgå ifrån definitioner av begreppen "identitet" och "prekariat". Analysen visar att romankaraktärerna skapar identiteter kopplade till arbetet genom att studera hur deras kollegor beter sig och därefter härma detta beteende. De gör det även genom att bära arbetskläder, lära sig arbetsuppgifterna samt genom att differentiera sig mot arbetsgivaren respektive tjänstemännen på samma arbetsplats. Den identitet de har utanför arbetet är kopplad till kultur och åtskild från identiteten som arbetare.

Composed for the JACK Quartet during their Spring residency at BU during the week of Febuary 19-23, 2018. Recorded at the BU Concert Hall on Febuary 21, 2018. Composed between September 2016 - February 2018. duration: approx. 30 min. “ ccidentall , r’s finger touches Ch e’s, their feet, under the table, happen to against each other. W might be eng by the mean of these accidents; e might concentrate ph on these slight zones of contact and d l t in this fragm nt of inert finger or f , fet i tically, without concern for the re- sponse (like od——as t etym y of the word t lls us——the Fe does not reply). But in fact erthe is not pe e, he is in lov : h creates meaning, al ays and ev ry here, out of nothing, a it is meaning wh th ll im: is in crucible of meaning. Every contact, f r t lover, raises qu st on of n answer: the skin s asked to reply. “ Quand mon doigt par mégarde… ” (A squeeze of the hand——enormous documentation——a tiny gesture within the palm, a knee which doesn’t move away, an arm extended, as if quite naturally, along the back of a sofa and against which the other’s head gradu- ally comes to rest——this is the paradisiac realm of subtle and clandestine signs: a kind of festival not of the senses but of meaning.) ” Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments