Yes Sir! An Analysis of the Superior/Subordinate Relationship in the Late Ramesside Letters

In her 1994 article entitled ‘Idiolects in the Late Ramesside Letters’, Deborah Sweeney hypothesises that all choices made in the construction of personal letters are reflective of individual language variance. Such a statement places the motivation and construction of letters onto the individual, and, although Sweeney did, to a certain extent, further develop her views on politeness in her 2001 monograph, the idea that politeness is representative of individual language variance has not directly been addressed. This study will demonstrate that the Late Ramesside Letters reflect embedded linguistic mechanisms in order to ensure successful communication between interlocutors that is not dependent on personal language variance. The superior social position of the General Piankh at the end of the Twentieth Dynasty will be utilised to demonstrate the benefits of politeness theory in identifying linguistic patterns in the letters, patterns that support and maintain social relationships between superiors and their subordinates. Politeness theory is based on the notion of ‘face’, and how an individual’s public persona must be adhered to in communication in order to reduce the level of imposition; this is especially significant in biased relationships. Predominately this study will focus on the relationship between Piankh and the Scribe of the Necropolis Dhutmose due to the amount of surviving documents between the pair, to view the linguistic manifestation of their superior/subordinate relationship

Boston University Percussion Ensemble, November 9, 2015

This is the concert program of the Boston University Percussion Ensemble performance on Monday, November 9, 2015 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were the following by John Cage: Living Room Music, Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March No. 1), Six, Imaginary Landscape No. 3, One4, and Third Construction. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

The role of regulatory mechanisms for control of plant diseases and food security — case studies from potato production in Britain

Being aware of the potentially devastating impacts of plant diseases on food security, governments have designed and employ plant health legislation to prevent or inhibit the worst impacts. The development of such policies in Britain, and latterly in Europe, can be closely linked to disease events that have occurred in the potato sector. We analyse early and current examples of policies governing potato diseases in Britain to identify the decision processes leading to the implementation of such phytosanitary policies and how they have evolved over time and in response to different disease threats. Reasons for developing and implementing phytosanitary policies include the desire to prevent pathogens being introduced (entering and establishing in a new area), the protection of export markets, and the lack of effective control measures. Circumstances in which regulatory policies would not be appropriate could include situations where a disease is already widely distributed, unacceptable costs, lack of exclusion measures, or difficulties of disease diagnosis. We conclude that in general, government policies have worked well in protecting British potato growing over the last one hundred years, despite of the failures of some of the policies discussed here. They have also contributed much to the development of plant health policies for other crops. Voluntary grower initiatives are a new mechanism complementing existing formal policies with an additional level of security that allows individual growers to take on additional responsibility rather than relying entirely on government legislation

Supplement to the Burma Campaign Memorial Library's Descriptive Catalogue and Bibliography.

The Burma Campaign Memorial Library's Descriptive Catalogue and Bibliography was first published in 1999, and its second edition was published in 2001. This document is a suppliment to the catalogue

Owen Wingrave, February 21-24, 2013

This is the concert program of the Owen Wingrave performance on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Theater, 264 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. The work performed was Own Wingrave by Benjamin Britten. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Owen Wingrave, February 21-24, 2013

This is the concert program of the Owen Wingrave performance on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Theater, 264 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. The work performed was Own Wingrave by Benjamin Britten. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

It Didn’t Start with Proposition 187: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Nativist Legislation in California

The writer surveys California\u27s long history of nativist legislation. In doing so, he demonstrates that three recent Californian ballot initiatives—Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot that denied public services such as education and nonemergency medical care to so-called illegal aliens, Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in the public sector, and Proposition 227, which banned bilingual education in public schools—were not just a spasmodic backlash against recent demographic trends but were the culmination of a century-and-a-half of nativist politics in California. He shows that, from the beginning of statehood, anti-immigrant laws aimed at Latin-Americans and Asian-Americans have received broad support from the California electorate, which has always been, and still is, predominantly white and native-born