Gettysburg Historical Journal 2008

Complete issue of The Gettysburg Historical Journal 2008

Subject to Overflow: The History of Drainage Districts in Jasper County, Iowa

Between 1908 and 1915 the South Skunk River in Jasper County, Iowa was artificially straightened from its natural, crooked state. Landowners and farmers that owned land near the river sought better control of seasonal flooding patterns, and, through the organization of a drainage district, combined their financial resources to make environmental changes to the riverbottom lands. The wet prairie environment of Jasper County, and much of the Upper Midwest, has been altered by large-scale drainage projects, and today is under a very high degree of manipulation. The environmental characteristics found in riparian environments like the Skunk River that have abided throughout recorded history are relics of a substantially different landscape than what is seen today

The Echo: May 29, 1929

Six New Professors Coming – Eulogs Ballot to Eliminate Club Athletics – Greer Draws Crowd to Sunday Chapel – Philos Present Talented Reader – Faculty Decide to Give Finals – Gospel League Questionnaire – Powell to Teach Extension Work – L. York to Give Only Recital in Expression – Echo Holds Picnic – Faculty Plan Busy Summer – Plan Full Program For Last Few Days – Mnankas Elect Fall Officers – Why Squeaky Stairs? – Missionary Emphasis – Prohibiting Excess Office Holding – Literary Notes – Our Memories – Music Box – Popular Music in America Today Part III – Volunteer Band – Editor’s Note – Careers Begun – Alumni News – Holiness League – Taylor’s Missionary Interests – Former Student Writes Letter from Africa – Taylor’s Volunteers to Christian Service – Taylors Send Greetings from China – Chronicle of Missionary Activities – Latin American Students Tell Life Mission – State Volunteer President Explains Movement – T. U. Pictures - Past and Present – In Chapel This Week – Recital Received Enthusiastically – Senior Soangetahas Honored by Club – Illustrated Trip to Abraham’s Home – Taylor University In The Past – Baseball Series Stands 2 and 2 – Jokes – Thalos Win Track meet by a 34 Point Marginhttps://pillars.taylor.edu/echo-1928-1929/1014/thumbnail.jp

The Echo: September 18, 2015

A hoaxer, a hacker, and a boil water advisory – Blocked – Starting block or writer’s block? – An education in service – Top 5 Bizarre Headlines – Russia in Syria – Conversation over competition – A date for a day, a friend for a lifetime – The boiling point – Taylor’s best kept secrets – Echograms #TaylorU -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Retreat reflections – Discovering a balance – Paul’s Picks – The forgiving art – Seeking perspective – Stop talking to yourself – Accepting the consequences – Almost a miracle – Double overtime victory – Cross country starts strong – Weekly Preview – Athlete of the Weekhttps://pillars.taylor.edu/echo-2015-2016/1003/thumbnail.jp

Kenyon Collegian - June 9, 1913

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Field Museum of Natural History bulletin.

v. 61:1-3 (1990

Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel examines twelve works that reflect growing cultural awareness of climate crisis and participate in the reshaping of the stories that surround it. Central to this renegotiation are four narratives: environmental collapse, pastoral, urban and polar. Bringing ecocriticism into dialogue with narratology and a new body of contemporary writing, Astrid Bracke explores a wide range of texts, from Zadie Smith’s NW through Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to the work of a new generation of novelists such as Melissa Harrison and Ross Raisin. As the book shows, post-millennial fictions provide the imaginative space in which to rethink the stories we tell about ourselves and the natural world in a time of crisis

To a Golden Land

Student Number : 8238599 - MA dissertation - School of Social Sciences - Faculty of HumanitiesThe story of the Jewish community in South Africa is a long and colourful one. The population is based entirely on immigrants who first began arriving in the late 1860s. Their presence in the country is characterised by a disproportionate visibility and as being distinct from other “Diaspora” communities. The community has shrunk by a third in the last thirty years, in a mirror image of the initial waves of immigrants to the country a century before. This sense of movement spanning a long period of time in the context of the historical phenomenon that is South African Jewry suggests itself to a documentary film. A cinematic treatment of the phenomenon of waves of Jewish immigration to and from South Africa requires approaching the subject matter from a number of directions simultaneously. The film genre “historical documentary” requires equal emphasis on the techniques of cinema as well as an historical approach. This document addresses each in turn, with Section 1 dealing with the historical framework underlying the film. Section 2 addresses the theory and practice of documentary film inasmuch as it pertains to the proposed film. This section also contains a review of existing film documentary approaches to the subject matter. Section 3 contains a scene by scene breakdown of the film. The appendix contains a literature review and supplemental notes. Overall Aim The starting point for the construction of the film is an attempt to develop an approach that deliberately eschews the conventional documentary technique used in the making of similar films. By ignoring the fact that film is a predominantly visual medium, films often fall into a trap of “over-textualising” i.e. their visual or metaphorical essence becomes subordinate to the text of the film. Since the text drives the narrative, this can result in a sapping of visual interest in favour of what is often a tedious voice-over. This film wishes to take advantage of film as a rich visual and symbolic medium. I aim to show that this approach need not lead to a loss of overall transmitted content, historical or otherwise. The maxim “less is more”, though seemingly cliché, applies in large part to the making of a historical documentary

Special Libraries, May-June 1930

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