Modern transcendental vision of William Heyen

This paper shall attempt to outline William Heyen's Transcendental Vision. Chapter One, sections one to three, defines Transcendentalism, explores the visions of two well known American thinkers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, and shows how they are important to Heyen's work. Chapter Two explores Heyen's symbols and themes, specifically: Light, Prism and Vapour. Chapter Three likewise explores. Tree, Wenzel and Machine. The final section shall coalesce and conclude Heyen's modern Transcendental vision

Spartan Daily, October 14, 1991

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The Independent, No. 8, October 27, 1977

The Independent was a student run newspaper created in 1960 at Newark State College, now Kean University. The proceeding title was The Reflector. The editor of this issue was Barbara Walcoff.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/independent_1975-1979/1055/thumbnail.jp

E.M. Forster’s Short Stories

This paper will discuss E. M. Forster\u27s short stories, using George Meredith\u27s theory of the comic spirit and plot as a basis for critical analysis. In addition, it will suggest that some of Forster\u27s characteristic ideas, which may appear in his later novels, occur first, and in developed form, in his short stories

Connecting to nature in pre-school

Outdoor environments and nature could positively support pre-school children living in lowsocial economic urban environments. By valuing the role of lived experiences, this research explores how outdoor places and nature could support and counteract the widespread inequities that affect these children. While the literature has evidence for the role of nature in children´s development and positive senses of place, it has been argued for the need for studies in different economic and cultural backgrounds, which is addressed by this thesis. The study is a participative, child-centered, empirical, qualitative study that investigates the role of distinct environments in children's agency to use, play and learn and concurrently develop senses of place. Experiences of a group of pre-school children's outdoor environments during pre-school days are explored while assuming the dynamic interrelationship of the physical, social, and organizational characteristics of everyday life related to children's development. The departure is taken in the socioecological framework for human development by Bronfenbrenner, Stokols; Sense of place by Relph and Place-relations literature. This research explores how children attending a pre-school located in a low-social economic area in the south of Sweden create meaning and experience places in their everyday lives, including their schoolyard, their local neighborhood, and occasional excursions to the Landscape Laboratory in SLU Alnarp. This inquiry draws on ethnographic methods: participant observation with fieldnotes, photographs, and workshops in which children would draw favorite places, including informal conversations and a walking interview with children and informal conversations with the school's pedagogues. Following children outdoors on many occasions during autumn 2020 revealed aspects of the environment connected to their use of places. The inductive, qualitative analysis suggested the importance of access to suitable outdoor environments containing nature, giving children the opportunity for free play and adult support in children's development of place meaning. The results explore the underpinned value of outdoor environments and nature whilst relating to the value of the cultivation of positive place relationships in childhood. The result highlighted how natural environments in the schoolyard related to children's agency during active play, social interactions, and self-learning activities. Regular visits to a site with a natural environment with a larger abundance of affordances facilitating usage and play seemed to make an imprint on their play in their schoolyard, with a larger and more creative usage of place. Regular walks in their local neighborhood also supported children's agency to create positive place relations to their local environments. In the results section, a "narrative map" illustrates places in terms of children's meaning-making experiences. A thematic result explored how outdoor environments became places related to children's learning experiences. The discussion suggests implications for environmental planning, pedagogical practices, and organizational efforts to counteract the negative environmental impacts on pre-school children living in low-social economical areas and could be applied in pre-school children in all contexts, supporting their development and learning

The NEBLINE, July 1997

Contents: Home*A*Syst: Helping you assess environmental risks in and around your home Watch for squash vine borer Summer patch of turfgrass Storing extra seeds Mower wounds can kill trees Replant iris Harvesting Recycle your pesticide containers at the Lancaster County Fair! Chigger alert! Don’t ruin your recreational outing Master Beekeeping/Queen Rearing Workshops The nonstop dropper Water patrol checklist Have you ever seen dead flies clinging to the top of vegetation? UNL to conduct hands-on Diagnostic Clinics in July Wheel traffic reduces alfalfa yield Dealing with summer pasture shortages Planning tips for noxious weed control in CRP contracts Staying safe on the way up Variety key to avoiding resistant weed growth Handling and disposal of solid waste Buying an acreage Focus on Food Watch for nutrient drug interaction in older adults Healthy Eating: Shell Pasta Salad with Veggies Lincoln/Lancaster County Food and Hunger Coalition Practice food safety at summer picnics! Family & Community Education: Alice\u27s Analysis Character Counts! Caring FCE Sizzling Summer Sampler 1997 Health Awareness Day Household Hints: Spots or Stains Keeping families first 4-H Bulletin Board Character Counts! Teen Funshop County fair contests and interview judging 4-H Council positions It\u27s 4-H camp time 4-H sheep and beef show Horse Bits Lincoln rates high as manufacturing community Everybody loves llamas! Nebraska\u27s new residents study nears completion What\u27s cookin\u27 at local elementary schools? 4-H SERIES! What to do on a hot summer day? Visit the Nebraska State Museum! Extension Calenda

"Cleanly in their persons and cleanly in their dwellings": an archaeological investigation of health, hygiene, and sanitation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England

In this dissertation, I investigate how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England regarded and negotiated the fundamental personal issues of health, hygiene, and sanitation. I employ environmental archaeological and material data, in particular parasite remains, from six New England privy sites: three eighteenth-century sites in Newport, Rhode Island, and three nineteenth-century sites in Boston and New Hampshire. Two eighteenth-century sites belonged to households in the middling stratum of society: one was a poor, lower-class residence. Two nineteenth-century sites were working class- a tenement and a brothel, both in Boston; the third was the Chase House, an upper-class domicile in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The archaeological and documentary evidence reveal daily choices and their effects. All three eighteenth-century households used chamber pots; the middle-class privies also contained high-quality ceramics. Documents indicate that these families functioned as small-scale merchants. Their prosperity notwithstanding, all three sites revealed parasites, although the amount was considerably less in the middle-class remains than from the poorer household. The nineteenth-century privies reflect that era's inhabitants' increased attention to sanitation and medical treatments; all privies contained more ewers, basins, and medicine bottles. Parasites remained a problem for the working class: both the tenement and brothel privies show moderate levels of parasitic infection. No such evidence was found in the Chase House privy. The material evidence of chamber pots, wash basins, and medicine bottles, places alongside the indications of infection, reveal peoples' active concerns with issues of hygiene and health, and demonstrated also that attention to these issues increased from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. Higher levels of household wealth may be linked to lower levels of infection in both eras, probably because of better access to medicines and clean water. The personal involvement revealed by the remains is also reflected in the era's changing social attitudes. The impoverished came to be seen as agents of their own misery whose only hope was to adopt the cleanliness of the upper classes. Poorer people without ready access to better sanitation were regarded as people choosing to live in squalor and, as such, unworthy and beyond help

Generating intelligent tutoring systems for teaching reading: combining phonological awareness and thematic approaches

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the use of computers with artificial intelligence methods for the teaching of basic literacy skills to be applied eventually to the teaching of illiterate adults in Brazil.In its development many issues related to adult education have been considered, and two very significant approaches to the teaching of reading were focused on in detail: Phonological Awareness (PA) and Generative Themes. After being excluded from literacy curricula for a long time during the ascendancy of the "Whole Word" approaches, activities for the development of phonological awareness are currently being accepted as fundamental for teaching reading, and are being incorporated in most English literacy programmes. Generative Themes, in turn, were first introduced in Brazil in a massive programme for teaching reading to adults, and have since then been used successfully in a number of developing countries for the same purpose. However, these two approaches are apparently conflicting in their principles and emphasis, for the first (PA) is generally centred on the technical aspects of phonology, based on well controlled experiments and research, whereas the second is socially inspired and focused mainly on meaning and social relationships.The main question addressed in this research, consequently, is whether these two apparently conflicting approaches could be combined to create a method that would be technically PA oriented but at the same time could concentrate on meaning by using thematic vocabularies as stimuli for teaching. Would it be possible to find words to illustrate all the phonological features with which a PA method deals using a thematic vocabulary?To answer this question diverse concepts, languages and tools have been developed as part of this research, in order to allow the selection of thematic vocabularies, the description of PA curricula, the distribution of thematic words across PA curricula, the description of teaching activities and the definition of the teaching strategy rules to orient the teaching sequence.The resultant vocabularies have been evaluated and the outcomes of the research have been assessed by literacy experts. A prototype system for delivering experimental teaching activities through the Internet has also been developed and demonstrated

Genetic frontiers for conservation:An assessment of synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation

In recent years synthetic biology has emerged as a suite of techniques and technologies that enable humans to read, interpret, modify, design and manufacture DNA in order to rapidly influence the forms and functions of cells and organisms, with the potential to reach whole species and ecosystems. As synthetic biology continues to evolve, new tools emerge, novel applications are proposed, and basic research is applied. This assessment is one part of IUCN’s effort to provide recommendations and guidance regarding the potential positive and negative impacts of synthetic biology on biodiversity conservation; it comprises a full assessment and a short synthesis report