Cultural and Narrative Shifts of Nineteenth Century Children\u27s Literature in Hawthorne\u27s Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

Both folklorists and literary critics have been drawn to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s body of work because of his distinctive style and incorporation of folk motifs. Such motif-spotting presents no challenge in Hawthorne’s juvenile literature like his retellings from Greek mythology in Wonder Book for Girls and Boys; however, contemporary folklore redirects the focus of this scholarship to “how particular literary uses of folklore fit into a larger, more fundamental concept of what folklore is and how and what folklore communicates” (de Caro & Jordan 2015:15). Hawthorne’s work interacts with other forms of cultural expression in the nineteenth century such as dominant cultural narratives and artwork to transform the classical narratives in Wonder Book for Girls and Boys into narratives that reflect customs in conversational discourse and childrearing practice

“We\u27re Rags to Riches”: Dual Consciousness of the American Dream in Two Critical History Classrooms

Within the United States, wealth disparities are growing and upward social mobility is becoming increasingly difficult to attain. These trends call into question the American Dream ideology that anyone can succeed through hard work. This meritocratic ideal has traditionally been one of the unifying ideologies promoted through the public school curriculum. The topic of economic inequality, on the other hand, is largely absent from most social studies curricula. When teachers do address this issue, they tend to omit discussions of causes or potential policy solutions. Students are thus left with few resources with which to develop positions on policies related to inequality that would help them become more informed voters and contributors to public discourse on this issue

Case Collection on Philippines (2012)

This is the second working paper in the series on Social Entrepreneurship in Asia published by the Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (ACSEP). ACSEP’s mission is to advance the understanding and impactful practice of social entrepreneurship and philanthropy in Asia through research and education. While Asia is rich with the practice of social entrepreneurship given the plethora of social issues and challenges facing the region, there is still catch-up to be done in the documentation of these challenges and the responses from the private, public and people sectors. Case studies provide the platform for story-telling, analysis and theory building. Each of these applications serves a function in capacity building in the social entrepreneurship space in Asia. Story-telling inspires, engenders passion, informs of possibilities, sparks action, builds communities and facilitates information exchange for change. Iterations of analysis (and synthesis) done in the classroom among practitioners, professionals and students develop critical skills of assessment and evaluation. Academics interact with the models of social entrepreneurship which surface from data drawn from practice to build theory which again informs on practice. This collection of cases on social entrepreneurship was borne out of a three-year partnership between the National University of Singapore Business School, the Ateneo de Manila University and Gawad Kalinga in a collaboration on curriculum development in entrepreneurship for sustainable development. On behalf of the partners, I want to thank Temasek Foundation for its generous support for this collaboration. It provides capability and capacity training in entrepreneurial skills for both for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises. This case collection stands as a testimony of the collaboration which started in 2010. The collaboration has two dimensions. First, it is a curriculum development programme for curriculum writers to design a cornerstone undergraduate module on entrepreneurship for sustainable development. The programme introduces a method in curriculum development which integrates multiple disciplines throughout the module. In June 2012, this module was offered in the School of Social Sciences and the John Gokongwei School of Management for the first time. This case collection was commissioned to accompany this cornerstone module on entrepreneurship for sustainable development and can be used for discussion in many of its lesson plans. Second, it is a train-the-trainer programme for Gawad Kalinga leaders to train entrepreneurs in some 2,300 communities throughout the Philippines. The programme provides process learning for Gawad Kalinga community leaders to train entrepreneurs in their own communities. 24 Gawad Kalinga trainers and leaders were trained in May 2011. As planned, this Gawad Kalinga training program has been cascaded to their communities to build capacity, targeting to train at least 100 leaders and entrepreneurs by April 2013. The theoretical framework for the curriculum development process has been documented in a video clip and can be viewed in YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5S8vm_enu0]. Apart from its use in formal curriculum on entrepreneurship for sustainable development, we hope that this case collection can be inspiring reading to challenge the vision of and provoke passion in some of our aspiring entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. We in Asia contribute 60 percent of the world’s poor. Entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, besides education, are some of the keys to restore dignity, alleviate poverty and create employment. Therefore, social entrepreneurs in Asia are faced with one of the widest spectrums of unmet people needs and the correspondingly open range of entrepreneurial possibilities. I believe that one of the better ways of internalising the skill to recognise opportunities and create that value proposition is to keep looking at paradigms after paradigms, models after models. Some of these ought to be failure stories. Regrettably, there is a survivorship bias even in storytelling. Notwithstanding, the constant practice of reading such cases or stories, consciously or subconsciously, sharpens our senses of differentiating a success potential from a failure potential. It is with this hope that ACSEP publishes its Case Collection on Philippines. I also recognise that each Asian economy has its own trajectory in socio-economic development. Therefore, the corresponding solutions to its social issues are distinct to its context. This case collection is drawn from the Philippines. Over time, I hope that a beautiful mosaic will emerge from the myriad of entrepreneurial solutions in this collection and elsewhere for sustainable development

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Narrating Policy Transfer: Renewable Energy and Disaster Risk Reduction in ECOWAS

The thesis contributes to the policy transfer literature through the examination of narratives presented by policy actors engaged in policy transfer. The actors’ policy narratives are analysed through the application of the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF). With the use of the NPF, the research investigates the portrayal of narrative elements, including, setting, character, plot, and moral, by the transfer actors, in depicting their perception of the transfer process and object, and of the other actors involved in the policy transfer. The investigation is aimed at having a better understanding of factors that facilitate the occurrence of policy transfer i.e. transfer mechanisms, such as, conditionality, obligation, and persuasion, and how they manifest and drive the transfer process. To examine how policy narratives may inform the manifestation of transfer mechanisms, the research studies two cases of policy transfer involving international governmental organisations (IGOs) as transfer agents. These are i) the transfer of renewable energy policy by the European Union to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and ii) the transfer of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy by the United Nations International Strategy for DRR (UNISDR) to ECOWAS. The thesis argues that the mechanisms of conditionality and persuasion were involved in the transfer of renewable energy policy, while the mechanism of obligation can be observed in the transfer of DRR policy. It further argues that the portrayals of the narrative setting, character, plot and moral, in the policy narratives of the transfer agents and recipient, shaped the manifestation of these transfer mechanisms. The application of the NPF to the two case studies enabled the identification and association of different policy narrative elements that will likely characterise specific transfer mechanisms. In addition, the study highlights the opportunity of broadening policy transfer research beyond a limited geographical reach, through covering two instances of policy transfer to a region in sub-Sahara Africa. It also broadens the group of actors that are often studied in the literature by considering policy transfers initiated and led by IGOs

The collusion of feminist and postmodernist impulses in E.L. Doctorow "Ragtime"

Many critics of Doctorow have classified him as a postmodernist writer, acknowledging that a wide number of thematic and stylistic features of his early fiction emanate from the postmodern context in which he took his first steps as a writer. Yet, these novels have an eminently social and ethical scope that may be best perceived in their intellectual engagement and support of feminist concerns. This is certainly the case of Doctorow’s fourth and most successful novel, Ragtime. The purpose of this paper will be two-fold. I will explore Ragtime’s indebtedness to postmodern aesthetics and themes, but also its feminist elements. Thus, on the one hand, I will focus on issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy of meaning, plurality and decentering of subjectivity; on the other hand, I will examine the novel’s attitude towards gender oppression, violence and objectification, its denunciation of hegemonic gender configurations and its voicing of certain feminist demands. This analysis will lead to an examination of the problematic collusion of the mostly white, male, patriarchal aesthetics of postmodernism and feminist politics in the novel. I will attempt to establish how these two traditionally conflicting modes coexist and interact in Ragtime

Machine intelligence, adaptive business intelligence, and natural intelligence

Copyright © 2008 IEEEOne of the key observations of the author was that machine intelligence might be defined as the capability of a system to adapt its behavior to meet desired goals in a range of environments. Interestingly, the three components of prediction, adaptation, and optimization constitute the core modules of adaptive business intelligence systems. Clearly, the future of the business intelligence industry lies in systems that can make decisions, rather than tools that produce detailed reports.Zbigniew Michalewicz and Matthew Michalewic

Master of Arts

thesisIn 1908, a Special Base Ball Commission determined that baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839. The Commission, established to resolve a long-standing debate regarding the origins of baseball, relied on evidence provided by James Sullivan, a secretary working at Spalding Sporting Goods, owned by former player Albert Spalding. Sullivan solicited information from former players and fans, edited the information, and presented it to the Commission. One person's allegation stood out above the rest; Abner Graves claimed that Abner Doubleday "invented" baseball sometime around 1839 in Cooperstown, New York. It was not true; baseball did not have an "inventor" and if it did, it was not Doubleday, who was at West Point during the time in question. Ever since the Commisson's decision, historians have attempted to remove any connection between baseball and Abner Doubleday. The Commission's process and decision, itself an episode in the history of baseball, has largely been treated by historians narrowly: mostly debunking the decision over and over. Even one hundred years later, many Americans believe the Doubleday Myth. In 1999, the documents Sullivan collected, previously believed to be burned in a fire, were donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This made available the entire process of the decision for analysis. Historians have used this information to gain additional information on the early history of the game, and to further analyze the circumstances surrounding the creation myth. This paper attempts to analyze the motives of the decision. The documents show how much patriotism was involved and how seriously the men involved in the debate took the issue. This persistent debate was settled at a time when America was flexing its muscles on the world stage and spreading its gospel. Baseball, which was part of that gospel, had already sent its own missionaries to the world twice. Spalding, baseball's greatest missionary, was involved both times. This paper will utilize the Commission documents and extensive scrapbooks in the Albert Spalding Collection to show that to the men involved in the debate, their patriotism and masculinity were at stake, and winning the debate became as important as any game

Reviving boro: The transcultural reconstruction of Japanese patchwork

This thesis investigates boro as a revived cultural phenomenon, one that physically originated in Japan but that has been conceptually defined by other cultures. It excavates the layers of value and meaning embedded in boro as a result of making, collecting, exhibiting and design activities in order to reveal how and why people have begun to appreciate boro within a range of different cultural, spatial and social contexts. In doing so, this research challenges the existing literature documenting boro’s origins and authenticity and reveals the forces at play behind the transformation of boro from folk craft to the practice of contemporary art, design and fashion. Born out of necessity, boro combines materials, techniques and aesthetics that are rooted in Japanese mending culture and textile traditions. Drawing on Michael Thompson’s Rubbish Theory, the research demonstrates how, as boro’s functional value has decreased in the contemporary context, new values have been re-ascribed to it through its continued transcultural production in diverse contexts, in which boro has adopted a range of different roles from antique object and example of textile practice to vintage fashion style, a concept promoting sustainability, inspiration for creative practice and cultural symbol. This research critically evaluates these dimensions of the process of value creation through studies of personal and museum boro collections, new boro fashion design and recent boro practices of independent crafters. The return of boro in the global art and design landscape raises questions about how a revived phenomenon is translated in today’s diverse contexts and makes a special claim for boro’s original culture, how it communicates in other cultural spaces and how these are understood and reproduced in new possibilities. This thesis positions boro within a global context, demonstrating how the co-creation of meanings and values has developed through cultural connections and subsequent interpretations