Hawthorne’s Independent Women : Individualism and Self-Reliance as Empowerment

This thesis will explore the ways in which Hawthorne addresses the role of womanhood in The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, by using constructs of 19lh-century domesticity and women’s position in society. In each novel, Hawthorne clearly depicts what society expects of women, as well as how they should behave according to social and religious standards. A historical and feminist lens will be used to examine the way in which a woman can be both restricted by and freed from a patriarchal society in both novels. Through the characters of Hester, Pearl and Mistress Hibbins in The Scarlet Letter and Hepzibah and Phoebe in The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne demonstrates his interest in female defiance. Most of these characters are aware of their domestic expectations, yet ultimately choose to live according to their own moral laws. As a result, they gain independence and a new shaping in the definition of true womanhood. Both Phoebe and Hester experience numerous struggles but live successfully by developing individuality and a strong sense-of-self. However, women such as Hepzibah exhibit strength and courage but do not possess the capabilities to become the ideal domestic woman. Whereas the women display the ability to remain independent while living within society, the men unsuccessfully live by their own moral law and fail at resisting society’s ways. In both novels, Hawthorne privileges women by demonstrating that they can ultimately live by and maintain their own moral law, even while living among the same society that they reject. By demonstrating the ways women can develop individuality and yet reside peacefully in society, Hawthorne shows that women do have the opportunity to maintain strength and begin a new way in which to define womanhood: a way in which other women will follow

Land Grant Application- Davis, Ezra (Ellsworth)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Ezra Davis for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Abigail.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1237/thumbnail.jp

Land Grant Application- Davis, Nicholas (Hollis)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Nicholas Davis for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Abigail.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1240/thumbnail.jp

Sharing Experiences to Cultivate “a More Open Mind about Teaching”: A Co/Autoethnography of Pre-Collegiate Teaching Experiences

The purpose of this study was to create a third space between a teacher educator and an undergraduate student to explore teaching experiences while in high school within NFE programs in which we participated. We developed a series of five prompts that we responded to individually, meeting via Zoom to discuss our experiences and teacher learning. Our collaborative and iterative analysis revealed four categories related to our non-formal education teaching experiences: 1) how teacher learning was impacted by particular contexts in which it took place; 2) how our experiences revealed different and broader notions of teaching than we observed in our formal education experiences; 3) how certain contradictions shaped, and perhaps inhibited, our learning as teachers; and 4) what we learned from the teaching we did in NFE programs. Our findings depict how young people in recent years may accrue experiences teaching not accounted for in previous scholarship

Land Grant Application- Kemp, Benjamin (Fitchburg)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Benjamin Kemp for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Abigail Davis.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_mass/1209/thumbnail.jp

Volume 34 (2002)

The 2002 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by Abigale Wolford and C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction; non-fiction; poetry; art; and photography by student; regional; and national writers and artists. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz poetry award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Sarah Thomas with Ron Rash serving as the contest judge. The cover design, The Broad River in Blue, was photographed by Natalie Brown. Student writing award winners include: Christi Hallis; Tara Hostetler; and Abigale Wolford. The Broad River Review Editor\u27s Prizes in Fiction and Poetry are chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. Student art award winners include: Kim Blanton; Erik Wince; and Ignacio Arana. Fiction award winners include: Ron Rash, Jennifer Carlile, Miriam Oviedo, and C. V. Davis.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/brreview/1014/thumbnail.jp

Household costs and foster care

Household costs and foster car

Evaluation of the New Deal for diasbled people: the cost and cost-benefit analyses

The New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) is the major Government employment programme available to people claiming incapacity benefits. As such, it plays an important role in the Government’s welfare to work strategy. The programme is delivered locally by Job Brokers, which are a mixture of voluntary, public and private sector organisations. Although Job Brokers vary enormously in size and in how they operate, most help clients with their job search, engage in job development, and attempt to increase clients’ confidence in their ability to work. Many also attempt to develop clients’ work-related skills and monitor clients’ progress in jobs after they are placed, sometimes intervening when the client encounters problems on the job. Job Brokers receive a payment from the Department for each client they register, for each client they place in a job, and for each placed client who continues to work for at least six months

USING NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS IN THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION

Background: Clinicians have long noticed a correlation between physiological markers of inflammation and depression. The best-known example is the activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and cortisol secretion; however more recent studies have demonstrated increased salivary prostaglandins and plasma acute phase proteins in depressed patients. To date four randomised controlled trials have used celecoxib or rofecoxib as adjuncts to serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors in the treatment of depression. These suggested a statistically significant decrease in depressive symptoms in the patients taking NSAIDs and SSRIs, compared to patients taking SSRIs alone. Interpretation of these results is limited by the small sample size and short duration of these preliminary studies. The research only considers depressed patients receiving treatment in secondary care; no study has examined the effectiveness of NSAIDs as an adjunct in primary care, even though most cases of depression in the UK are managed in the community by general practitioners. Proposal: We propose a multi-centre double-blinded randomised controlled trial with two objectives: to determine whether citalopram plus celecoxib dual therapy achieves a greater reduction in depressive symptoms (quantified using the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS)) within four weeks, compared to citalopram monotherapy; and to determine whether citalopram plus celecoxib dual therapy is more likely to achieve remission (HDRS score ≤7) of moderate to severe depression within six months, compared with citalopram monotherapy. The endpoints will be the reduction in HDRS score after 4 weeks of treatment, and the HDRS score after 26 weeks of treatment. The study will enrol 452 participants from general practices who have a moderate or severe, current or recurrent major depressive episode when medication with an SSRI is considered. The study population will be stratified according to age, sex, HDRS score, age of onset of first episode, number of previous depressive episodes and duration of current episode. The population will then be randomised into two groups. Subjects will be interviewed to determine HDRS score, measure blood pressure, count pills and discuss side-effects. This will occur weekly for the first four weeks, and every four weeks thereafte