The Mayflower, the Rapsody and other recent company law cases

Company law means much more than the Companies Act of 1995. Other laws contribute important additions to the subject. Significant examples are the Malta Stock Exchange Act and the Investments Services Act. Another important part is also played by the type of advice that lawyers give to their clients and how these laws are generally interpreted and applied in practice. Court decisions are another potentially significant source of guidance and interpretation. They apply legal principles to the facts presented before the court by the parties in dispute.peer-reviewe

Relatedness and kin-structured migration in a founding population: Plymouth colony, 1620-1633

Journal ArticleTo test the common assumption of no genetic relationship in a founding population, we calculated average relatedness (r) for the emigrants to Plymouth Colony from Europe on seven voyages from 1620 to 1633. Of 355 individuals, 255 could be individually identified and 4 generations of genealogic depth accounted for

Pilgrims, Patriots & Porters: How Beer Influenced the Creation of the United States

Beer has played an integral role in human history. Since the beginning of the human agrarian lifestyle, beer has been a safe source of water as well as a nutritional beverage, and has also played important roles to humans both economically and socially. The United States is no different; the influence of beer is demonstrated in the settling and creation of the United States of America. Methods utilized in this study include articles and books found through the CSUMB Library databases, and consultation and personal communications with experts. The purpose of this Capstone is to educate readers of the direct influence beer has had on the Colonial Era, specifically in the settling and creation of the United States

“Ships, Vol. 2” Beyond Transport, Combat and Tourism: A Study into Ships on Postcards

Over several millennia, ships have been displayed in all sorts of media ranging from commercials to diaries and newspapers. When the postcard was invented in 1869, various ships began appearing on them. Postcards with ships became far more than a way to message. They became advertisements, showcases of paintings, and repositories of information. Postcards gave ships a new purpose and unique audiences in the name of advertisement, art, and knowledge, as this essay will show by examining “Ships, Vol. 2”of the David P. Campbell Postcard Collection at The University of Akron

"For the Bright Side of the Painting I Had a Limited Sympathy": Emancipation and Counter-Emancipation in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

The article focuses on the contradictory construction of a free and self-reliant (and \u201cimperialist\u201d) white male identity in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Poe\u2019s romance builds up the myth of sea travelling as a way to reach an individual emancipation from the constraints (but also privileges) of social and familiar conditioning which ultimately fails due to a sort of \u201creturn of the repressed,\u201d of the censored reality that allows those same socio-familiar conditions to exist as they are \u2013 namely, the subjugation of black or non-white people who in the romance do not accept the role white domination would like to impose on them. On the other hand, the analogies linking Pym\u2019s predicament to the condition of African Americans in antebellum America (something symbolically alluded to in the famous quote \u201cFor the bright side of the painting I had a limited sympathy\u201d) threaten to subvert Poe\u2019s construction of a free and authorative white identity, undermined also by the sheer fact that at the end of the romance we have only one last man standing who knows the final outcome of the story \u2013 and this man is not Pym, but mixed-blood Dirk Peters, half white and half Indian, and showing some distinctly African American somatic features. The route of the American \u201cship\u201d comes therefore to ultimately look as already bound towards a dramatic redefinition of the power relationships between whites and non-whites, despite Pym\u2019s (and Poe\u2019s) desperate attempt to resist this change and reinstall individual and collective white authority

Reanimating Ghost Editions, Reorienting the Early American Novel

What are the origins of the American novel? Does it begin with the imagination, when Europeans first began dreaming of life in the New World?1 Does it begin with Daniel Defoe’s adventurers, Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, and their literary progeny? Or does the novel need a material presence in the soil of the New World? Does it begin in 1789, with William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy?—which Isaiah Thomas, with shrewd prescience, marketed as the “first American novel.” Or does it begin even earlier, in 1742, with Benjamin Franklin’s first American edition of Samuel Richardson’s sentimental novel Pamela, published at his shop in Philadelphia? These are all arguable inception points for American fiction, grounded in particular kinds of historicist practices. But what if what we think we know about the material history of the novel in British America is wrong—or at least more complicated? What if we were able to push back by five decades the date of the first novel published in the American colonies and locate that first novel publication not in relatively liberal Pennsylvania, but at the height, and in the heart, of conservative Puritan Massachusetts? If the first novel published in the colonies was not a sentimental story about middling kinds of white people, as were Pamela and The Power of Sympathy, but rather a story about race, sex, violence, slavery, and colonialism, how would those facts change the stories we tell about the novel and early America

Using Text Sets to Foster Critical Literacy Skills in Fifth Grade Social Studies

The research question addressed in this capstone was, How can a text set be used to promote critical literacy skills in a fifth grade social studies unit surrounding the topic of American Colonization? This capstone describes current research on how critical literacy skills are taught by providing students with rich and meaningful texts focused on a chosen topic. The goal of this project was to create a text set that could be used in a 5th grade social studies unit centered the topic of American colonization. The accompanying curriculum utilizes these texts in stimulating activities that challenge readers to look critically at the texts and the authors who wrote them. The author offers details and rationales to support the use of such techniques and provides evidence that links these activities to research while describing how these strategies can be used across the content area