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141	Faith, Fiction, and Fame: Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables Patchell, Kathleen M. January 2011 (has links) In 1908, two Canadian women published first novels that became instant best-sellers. Nellie McClung's Sowing Seeds in Danny initially outsold Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, but by 1965 McClung's book had largely disappeared from Canadian consciousness. The popularity of Anne, on the other hand, has continued to the present, and Anne has received far more academic and critical attention, especially since 1985. It is only recently that Anne of Green Gables has been criticized for its ideology in the same manner as Sowing Seeds in Danny. The initial question that inspired this dissertation was why Sowing Seeds in Danny disappeared from public and critical awareness while Anne of Green Gables continued to sell well to the present day and to garner critical and popular attention into the twenty-first century. In light of the fact that both books have in recent years come under condemnation and stand charged with maternal feminism, imperial motherhood, eugenics, and racism, one must ask further why this has now happened to both Danny and Anne. What has changed? The hypothesis of the dissertation is that Danny's relatively speedy disappearance was partly due to a shift in Canadians' religious worldview over the twentieth century as church attendance and biblical literacy gradually declined. McClung's rhetorical strategies look back to the dominant Protestantism of the nineteenth century, in contrast to Montgomery's, which look forward to the twentieth-century's waning of religious faith. Although there is enough Christianity in Montgomery's novel to have made it acceptable to her largely Christian reading public at the beginning of the century, its presentation is subtle enough that it does not disturb or baffle a twenty-first-century reader in the way McClung's does. McClung's novel is so forthright in its presentation of Christianity, with its use of nineteenth-century tropes and conventions and with its moralising didacticism, that the delightful aspects of the novel were soon lost to an increasingly secular reading public. Likewise, the recent critical challenges to both novels spring from a worldview at odds with the predominantly Christian worldview of 1908. The goal of the dissertation has been to read Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables within the religious contexts of a 1908 reader in order to avoid an unquestioning twenty-first-century censure of these novels, and to ascertain the reasons for their divergent popularity and recent critical condemnation. McClung, Nellie Montgomery, L.M. Sowing Seeds in Danny Anne of Green Gables Christian Methodism Protestantism Presbyterianism Evangelicalism Revivals Worldview Typology Secularism Romanticism Manitoba Prince Edward Island Eugenics Imperialism Maternal feminism Racism Biblical literacy Sunday-School Fiction Didacticism Idealism Temperance Presentism
142	Srovnání kryptografických primitiv využívajících eliptických křivek na různých hardwarových platformách / Comparison of cryptographic primitives used in elliptic curve cryptograpny on different hardware platforms Brychta, Josef January 2018 (has links) This master thesis deals with the implementation of variants of cryptographic libraries containing primitives for elliptic curves. By creating custom metering charts to compare each implementation. The main task was not only the implementation of libraries but also the design and implementation of test scenarios together with the creation of measurement methods for different libraries and hardware platforms. As a result, a number of experimental tests were conducted on different curves and their parameters so that the results of the work included complex problems of elliptic curves in cryptography. The main parameters were power, time and memory consumption.
143	Prefigurative politics as applied to the climate crisis : A game theoretical assessment Carlshamre, Nathan January 2023 (has links) In this paper, I make use of the game-theoretical concepts of cartel theory and coordination theory via salience and Schelling points in order to assess the viability of prefigurative politics when used by group actors to address the particular case of the climate crisis. I show that prefigurative politics as a strategy faces significant systematic disadvantages when used by social movements attempting to address climate change as compared to when it is used by social movements focused on other causes. These disadvantages are based on two factors: lack of motivation and a difficulty of coordination. In order to illustrate this point, I compare the situation for contemporary climate movements to a case example of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1957, showing how cartel theory worked in the favour of the civil rights movement, and how salience was crucial for the fast mobilisation of the African American community of Montgomery. Prefigurative politics game theory prefiguration climate activism activism environmental activism tragedy of the commons anarchism left-libertarianism political theory Montgomery bus boycott constructive program ecotage non-violence violence cartel theory salience Political Science Statsvetenskap
144	Total Coverage: How the Media Shaped Command Decisions During World War II Lovelace, Alexander G. 23 September 2020 (has links) No description available. American History European History History Journalism Mass Communications Mass Media Military History Military Studies Political Science World History Modern History World War II media press reporter censorship MacArthur Patton Bradley Eisenhower journalist Pyle Mauldin, SHAEF total war Roosevelt Hitler Churchill public opinion Publicity PRO Public Relations Montgomery Halsey morale Mark Clark

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