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Is Mars Inhabited?Douglass, A.E. 03 1900 (has links)
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Zodiacal Light and Counter-Glow and the Photography of Large Areas and Faint ContrastsDouglass, A.E. January 1916 (has links)
Read before the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain on December 14th, 1915.
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The Callendar Sunshine Recorder and Some of the World-Wide Problems to Which This Instrument Can Be AppliedDouglass, A.E. 08 January 1916 (has links)
Paper presented before the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, U.S.A., December 27, 1915-Janunary 8, 1916.
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Republican genealogies : selfhood and civic sensibilities in three writers of the American renaissance /Durkee, Patrick David. January 1998 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-262).
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Abolitionism and the Logic of Martyrdom: Death as an Argument for John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick DouglassMartini, Maximilian Umberto 01 May 2017 (has links)
This paper looks at three significant instances of the representation of abolitionist martyrdom in nineteenth-century America to first sketch the abolitionist discourse and its varied conceptualizations of martyrdom and second question the rationale and success of this strategy for manumitting slaves. Accordingly, I start with Brown, who (with help from sympathetic northerners and the megaphone of the Associated Press) appealed to the martyrological tradition in order to transform his paramilitary failure at Harper’s Ferry into a powerful symbol of his own abolitionist righteousness over and against the state’s iniquity. Though the superficial differences between Brown and arch-sentimentalist Harriet Beecher Stowe have discouraged their comparison, a look at the logic of martyrdom reveals a similar strategy at work in both Brown’s martyrization and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which makes death an argument for the manumission of slaves. I argue that this hugely successful novel reveals the potency of martyrological thinking in 19th-century America as it also reveals martyrdom and its logic to be the foundation of sentimentalism like Stowe’s. Finally, I look at the speeches and nonfiction of Frederick Douglass to argue that his own martyrization of John Brown is different than what we see in Brown and Stowe because it provokes change rather than validating abolitionism that already exists. To various degrees, these writers seem aware that there may be a problem in the rhetorical use of martyrdom against the putatively secular state; they consequently employ different strategies for negotiating the meaninglessness of suffering and death with the soteriological and eschatological assumptions of their day. These negotiations reveal the extent to which martyrdom could be taken seriously as a hammer of abolitionism by different authors and thus also indicate the degree to which martyrdom can be taken seriously as a political solution whatsoever. Ultimately, I want to argue that martyrdom and its logic are at best dubious when applied to secular politics precisely because it relies upon the analogy to Jesus Christ as savior, which cannot hold outside Christianity. Simply put, the death of a mortal cannot register eschatologically and, more importantly, death does not make a cogent argument for anything. Instead, martyrdom is preaching to the choir par excellance; whether the choir is Christian, abolitionist, or something else, martyrological appeals do not grow its membership, as martyrologists since early modernity have assumed.
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Persona Non Grata: Contested Spaces & the Built Environment at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893Allen, Nichol Marie 01 August 2022 (has links) (PDF)
This body of work explores the World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 and looks at how African American challenge the built environment of the Fair. The African American community contested the white constructed spaces by reimaging and claiming them for the self. At the Fair, black subordination was achieved and was maintained by the unabashed use of white power structures. After Reconstruction Black people began to turn to racial solidarity as a means of survival. Prior to Emancipation Blacks had been segregated and denied equal participation in the larger society regardless of their individual achievements. The result has been that race pride had, to a large degree, been conspicuously absent. The Fair pushed African Americans towards greater solidarity through inadvertently promoting pride in their racial heritage. Through examining the Fair, this work illuminates that the World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 served as a nexus for pivotal African American movements. I argue that the fair served as a turning point for African Americans and sparked radical movements that focused on Black independence at home and abroad. The Fair became a pivotal site of protest that paved the way for the Black Nationalist Movement, Pan-African Movement, the creation of the National Association of Colored Women, and the New Negro Movement.
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City and regional planning software in context : a rating framework for Planning Support SystemsPhelan, Chad Maclay 17 August 2010 (has links)
The difficulty of projecting ecological impacts, as well as the increasing familiarity of planners
with Geographical Information Systems and other software technology has led to an increase in the use of Planning Support Systems (PSS) by city and regional planners. Due to their newness
and rapid development, there is, of yet, a lack of a comprehensive peer-reviewed literature on the
design and implementation of these systems. This thesis proposes and applies a rating framework
for PSS in order to facilitate accessibility to and critical investigation of PSS. The rating
framework’s criteria are based on the “seven sins” of comprehensive land use models identified by Douglass Lee’s 1973 article “Requiem for Large-Scale Models." / text
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An Analysis of Phrase Structures in the First Movement of Leo Brouwer’s Elogio De La Danza (1964)Focsaneanu, Bogdan Vasile 13 September 2012 (has links)
This study examines phrase and larger formal structures in the first movement of Leo Brouwer’s Elegio de la Danza (1964), a work that draws on tonal and post-tonal traditions. By adapting key features of the tonal motive, as described by Douglass Green, and the tonal period, as proposed by Green and William Caplin, the model seeks to provide a tool for the discussion of phrases and larger forms in Brouwer’s work. An analysis of primary parameters, such as melody, harmony, and rhythm, provides the means to discuss how the composer articulates beginnings and endings of statements and responses, which are then grouped into antecedent and consequent phrases. These periods articulate large-scale sections, which outline a ternary formal design. Secondary parameters (dynamics, tempo markings, instrumental markings) further contribute to the identification of formal structures in Brouwer’s work.
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Vyprávění afroamerických otroků v souvislostech: Frederick Douglass a Harriet Ann Jacobs / The African-American Slave Narrative in Context: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann JacobsChýlková, Jana January 2016 (has links)
in English The aim of this MA thesis is to bring new perspectives on the genre of the African-American slave narrative. Therefore, its wider historical, socio-political and gender contexts are considered and the circumstances surrounding its development and current criticism are briefly outlined. The point of departure is a discussion of definitions that vary among the scholars who select different criteria for the subject of definition. The existing diversity of the texts and voices is discussed in connection to Moses Grandy's Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America. Grandy's narrative, an account of the maritime slave life, is analyzed. Its traditional, uniform narrative structures are juxtaposed with passages where some aspects of his masculine identity, problematized by the institution of slavery, can be traced. Ultimately, the thesis attempts to show that while the conventionalized framework pre-defining the narrative outline and themes is delineated by James Olney, any generally recognized definition of the genre does not exist. As a result of that conclusion, the genre is defined in the scope of this thesis. After the major characteristics of the genre are discussed and the definition of the African- American slave narrative is put forward, more...
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Ekonomické aplikace geometrického programování / Economic applications of geometric programmingŠtěpánek, Ladislav January 2013 (has links)
Geometric programming is a special case of nonlinear programming, where objective function and constraints are shaped as posynomials. In this work we introduce geometric programming and solving methods. In~last chapter we will apply the geometric programming to Cobb-Douglas production function, create a model with random demand and possible extensions of this model. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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