Special Libraries, May-June 1977

Volume 68, Issue 5-6https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1977/1004/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, March 1977

Volume 68, Issue 3https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1977/1002/thumbnail.jp

House crow presence as unsustainable urban indicator?

House crows (Corvus splendens), normally known as pest organisms due to their unhygienic and noisy characteristics, are usually found in abundance in urban areas, particularly in areas that are littered with rubbish i.e. areas with poor waste management. They forage for scraps near littered market places and poorly maintained garbage dumps, where food waste is not well managed. These areas provide abundant feeding opportunities for scavenging birds, in particular house crows. In Malaysia, hot spot areas for house crow nesting are in the Klang Valley, namely in Kuala Lumpur, Kajang and Klang which are in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area. The presence of house crows have often been regarded as unsustainable urban indicators, in particular as indicators of unhygienic conditions, which in turn are indicators of poor urban cleanliness and health. This urban issue must be addressed effectively and house crows must be controlled to avoid widespread health problems due to their increasing population. In Malaysia, shooting was the only form of control of these urban pests. However, there is often a lack of precaution taken by the authorities during shooting exercises and high risks occur during and after these events. Proper management of these pest organisms is one of the crucial issues that need to be implemented, perhaps even with stronger legislative measure by the authorities in order to avoid health problems to human and negative impacts on the environment, economy and livestock

Town of Grantham, NH 2021 annual town report.

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The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

The Spanish culture of storytelling suffered under the nearly forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The government-regulated cinema welcomed propaganda and melodrama, and denied the fantastic, the legendary, and the magical. These carefully manipulated histories, which served to romanticize the ideologies of the regime, also served to eulogize the delinquent and the depraved. In the early 1970s, at the heels of the collapse of Franco’s reign, the people of Spain bore witness to a new national cinema. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), the feature debut from Victor Erice, exists at the threshold between a storied history of Spanish dictatorship and an impending democratic new history. This thesis contemplates the ways in which The Spirit of the Beehive celebrates difference through examining a child’s relationship with the magical and the monstrous in two dichotomous landscapes: popular culture and endemic Spanish traditions. Erice’s film uses myth and fantasy to inquire what it means to be human, specifically a child, during this social transition. For Erice’s young protagonist, James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) conjures more than a simple celluloid terror. Ana’s emotional kinship with the wretch remodels the framework of her perception of selfhood; the bond awakens an awareness, of both self and other, and independence, as an individual and as a nation. My writing is inspired by the notion of rhizome developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, the second half of their seminal project Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Appropriated itself from the botanical term for a subterranean system of roots, the rhizome is a philosophical theory pertaining to multiplicities. Turning to Spanish Civil War history, D.W. Winnicott’s studies of true self and false self, Lois Parkinson Zamora’s work on Magical Realism, and Marsha Kinder’s Blood Cinema: the reconstruction of national identity in Spain, this thesis employs a rhizomatic exploration of oral folklore, Spanish Catholic rituals, and cinema of resistance as represented by the nation, the auteur, the child, and the monster — rooted here at the tree that is Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive

Special Libraries, December 1974

Volume 65, Issue 12https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1974/1008/thumbnail.jp

C.C. Bryant: a Race Man Is What They Called Him

Many historical contributions have been made to Civil Rights movement history in Mississippi. Thus far, historian John Dittmer\u27s, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi has provided the most thorough account of lesser known movement activist. There still exists a need for scholarship from the perspective of community leaders. Curtis Conway Bryant, better known as C.C. Bryant served as the McComb Pike County chapter president of the NAACP from 1954 to 1984. During the summer of 1964, McComb was known as the bombing capital of the world. Throughout the nineteen fifties Bryant worked with national and local NAACP leadership to grow the McComb branch. Throughout the nineteen sixties, Bryant carried out the national directives of the NAACP by encouraging civic engagement through voter registration and education. In the nineteen seventies, Bryant was the principal litigant in the class action lawsuit, C.C. Bryant vs. Illinois Central Rail Road. Represented by the NAACP, this case struck down segregation in the workplace. In the nineteen eighties, and throughout his lifetime, Bryant fought to end poverty, stood up for equal access to education and advocated for workers\u27 rights as a railroad union representative. Educated with only a high school diploma, Bryant influenced and mentored politicians, both black and white from McComb to Washington, D.C. Using, the power of narrative, this research provides: 1) insight into the formation of Bryant\u27s identity through stories of his personal and family background; 2) a greater understanding of his leadership development and relationship with national civil rights organizations; 3) defines Bryant\u27s role in addressing racial injustice in local and national civil rights movement history. Bryant\u27s personal conviction, leadership development and affiliation with the National Association for the advancement of Colored People changed the course of Mississippi Civil Rights history. This research is will contribute to the growing scholarship of Mississippi Civil Rights history