An Evaluation of The Place Occupied By The Greek Pastoral Elegy From Its Earliest Appearance To The Present

To the student versed in the classics the influence of Greek and Latin pastoral poetry on English Literature is well known. Starting at the time of the Italian Renaissance and encouraged by the Greek Revival several centuries later, the classical influence has permeated our literature more than any other factor. During the time of the Renaissance pastoral poetry had a place of importance equal to that of the equip and the drama. The sweet melodies of Greek rural life reechoed in the eclogues of Vergil had such a charm for later poets that they could not be resisted. Pastoral poetry made men hearken back to the time when the occupation of the shepherd was the ideal life of contentment, unencumbered by worry and care. To men of the Renaissance this period of Greek history was the Golden Age; to them Arcadia was the model form of government and it was the dream of Utopian-minded people of the 15th century. Not only the country where pastoral poetry originated became the poets’ fancy, but also the language, the phraseology, and the name were imitated by writers of the Renaissance and later periods of English literature. For them pastoral life in its simplicity, kindliness, and happiness was the most fertile field of poetic endeavor. It is my purpose in this thesis to devote myself to one special form of pastoral poetry that has perpetuated the classical influence on English literature, - the pastoral elegy

More than a memoir

This autobiography was written originally as a test of memory, as a means of diminishing piles of stored papers and file folders, and in an effort to record events as they actually happened. It had been my experience as a child, hearing oral histories presented by adult family members, that there was great variance in their perceptions. Perhaps I could set down the "facts" of a life and leave interpretations up to any readers. Each of the chapters was distributed to my four children, Kenneth, Marcia, James and David. Inasmuch as they read the sporadic mailings, I incorporated their corrections and tried to answer any questions they raised. I relied upon friends to check specific chapters against their memories and upon Peggy Phelps to offer penetrating criticism where she discerned opinion masquerading as fact. Diane Orona deciphered my handwriting sufficiently to produce a handsome, typed manuscript, and I thank her for her patience and her aim at perfection. Who will read such a manuscript? Who among the grandchildren or children has the time for it? With the completion of the story, can I hope that others may find it of interest? The very personal nature may decide against that. The diverse nature of the subject matter would guide toward selective readings: organic chemistry with some biochemistry and plant physiology; music, but mainly singing; bi-continental living and romance; family; travel; universities; extraneous material about foundations, research support, national and international organizations, even some talks (in the appendix). However, there is a whole to it -- the story of a sample life in the twentieth century and a bit into the twenty-first. I have found life's journey exciting and rewarding. I have been fantastically lucky. NJ

Living at the cutting edge: Women's experiences of protection orders. Volume 1: The women's stories

This report examines the experiences of 43 Māori, Pakeha, Pasifika and other ethnic minority women who were victims of male partner violence, the impact of the violence on them and their children, and their experiences of the justice system when they reached out for protection. The objectives of the project were to: a.identify and describe the experiences of a sample of women in obtaining protection orders, the impact of protection orders and the response to breaches of protection orders; b.identify those aspects that are working well (that is, positive experiences of protection orders); and c.identify areas for improvement including barriers that prevent women from applying for and obtaining protection orders

Celebrating 70: An Interview with Don Berry

Donald (Don) Arthur Berry, born May 26, 1940 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, earned his A.B. degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in statistics from Yale University. He served first on the faculty at the University of Minnesota and subsequently held endowed chair positions at Duke University and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Center. At the time of the interview he served as Head of the Division of Quantitative Sciences, and Chairman and Professor of the Department of Biostatistics at UT M.D. Anderson Center.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS366 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

The Long Wait (Part I): A Personal Account of Infantry Training in Britain, June 1942–June 1943

In the early summer of 1942, Harold (Hal) MacDonald, a young infantry officer from Saint John, New Brunswick, was posted overseas to join the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, then stationed in Great Britain. The North Shores were part of a growing Canadian military presence in Britain, preparing for the day when the Allies would return to the continent to help defeat the armies of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Canadian troops had begun to arrive in England in 1939, and indeed, after the fall of France in the late spring of 1940, formed an important part of Britain’s defence forces at a time when it and the Commonwealth stood alone against the combined might of Germany and Italy. By the time that MacDonald arrived, the number of Canadian troops had swelled to some 130,000, for the most part concentrated in the south of England, where they underwent rigorous training exercises and highly realistic simulated battles designed to prepare them to meet the enemy

A disturbance in inhibitory systems associated with autism and epilepsy

Thirty percent of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have recurrent spontaneous seizures (SS). The relationship between the etiology of ASD and epilepsy is an active area of study and one that our laboratory is interested in pursuing as evidence points to a shared disturbance in brain inhibitory systems using the neurotransmitter g-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Most patients suffer from temporal lobe epilepsy and although many molecular changes have been ascribed to its etiology, why certain individuals are at high risk and others are spared is unknown. Temporal lobe epilepsy can be modeled in animals through use of chemically induced prolonged seizures, called status epilepticus. After status epilepticus there is a seizure-free latent period, where ongoing molecular changes occur, followed weeks later by SS, a hallmark of epilepsy. Our laboratory has shown that major changes occur in the composition of GABA-A receptors (GABARs) during the latent period that impairs the function of synaptic receptors in the dentate gyrus, a gatekeeper of excitation in the hippocampus. In my thesis research I demonstrate for the first time that specific changes in GABAR expression are also present during the chronic period of SS, suggesting that altered GABAR composition is preserved throughout the disease process. A major molecular feature of ASD, and one that is seen in multiple ASD models, is marked disruption in development of GABAergic interneurons emerging from their birthplace in ganglionic eminence (GE), and the altered expression of GABARs. In my thesis research using RNA-sequencing I identified that GE expresses almost all of the genes coding for GABAR subunits laying the foundation for future studies on the role of GABARs during development. In addition, using sequencing of chromatin immunoprecipitated fragments containing binding sites for Engrailed 2, a major ASD candidate gene, I show that En2 may be a master regulator of multiple genes in the SFARI database; and, using mouse in utero electroporation, we provide the first evidence that En2 may control the fate of neurons emanating from GE at E12.5. Taken together, my thesis research has uncovered two major areas for future investigation into the overlapping fields of epilepsy and ASD