All Faculty Dead Day Luncheon - University Sesquicentennial: History and Resources for Teaching

In anticipation of the upcoming Sesquicentennial University Archivist, Amy Allen, gives a brief overview of U of A history along with tips on digging deeper into the University’s past. She outlines services and resources the University Archives and Special Collections provide for incorporating these unique resources into your class

Archibald C. Davenport: A Biography

Archibald C. Davenport was born in Savannah in 1819. He was the son of Isaiah and Jane Davenport. Archibald was a member of the Savannah Volunteer Guards and the Tattnall Guards. He served as a captain during the Civil War. Archibald served as Clerk of City council for a few years. He was a banker and was employed by the Bank of commerce and later by the Central Railroad Bank :from which he retired, He married Jane Postell around 1870. The couple had no children. Archibald died on April 91 1892 of a he:S,rt \u27track. lie was buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1056/thumbnail.jp

The rise and progress of printing

Citation: Allen, Amy Alena. The rise and progress of printing. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1904.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: 1. Definition: Printing is the art of taking an impression from an inked form, plate, block or stone. 2. Branches: There are several distinct branches of this important art, and each branch is, practically, a separate art, distinct from its rivals in its theory, its processes, and its applications. These methods are: (a) Steel-plate and Copper-plate Printing, in which the subject is printed from an etching or engraving below the surface of a plate of steel or copper. (b) Lithography, in which the subject is printed from a transferred engraving on the surface of a prepared stone.(c) Xylography, in which the subject is printed from a design engraved on a block of wood in high relief. (d) Typography, in which the subject is printed from a combination of movable metal types cast in high relief. The arts of lithography and copper-plate are useful and beautiful methods of printing, but they do not make books and newspapers. The necessity which compels the making of a new engraving for every new subject restricts them almost exclusively to the field of art and ornament. If no other method of printing were known, encyclopedias and newspapers would be impossibilities. "The art preservative of all arts" is not the art of lithography nor of copper-plate. This distinction rightfully belongs to typography only

A Series of Figure Drawings

It is the purpose of this study to create a series of figure drawings by means of experimentation with various materials and techniques, with a brief study on artists and their need and potential to delve in fantasies and mystical realms, just as the candidate will do in certain stages of development

A Rigorous Evaluation of Family Finding in North Carolina

Child Trends evaluated Family Finding services in nine North Carolina counties through a rigorous impact evaluation and an accompanying process study. The impact evaluation involved random assignment of eligible children to a treatment or control group. The treatment group received Family Finding services in addition to traditional child welfare services, whereas the control group received traditional child welfare services only. Eligible children were in foster care; were 10 or older at the time of referral; did not have a goal of reunification; and lacked an identified permanent placement. The accompanying process study examined program outputs, outcomes, and linkages between the project components and other contextual factors

Further Reflections on the Guillotine

The authors criticize the tone and substance of the current death penalty debate. The authors demonstrate that, as uncomfortable as it may sound, death is the commonality of social planning, and that all social policy decisions, including whether to have capital punishment, determine who will live and who will die. That we may execute some innocent people is an important consideration, but in light of the fact that without the death penalty other innocent people will be killed, it is not necessarily a reason to abandon it. If capital punishment deters crime, the point is obvious, but because the guilty will sometimes kill again if not executed, abolition would not obviously save innocent lives instead of merely displacing death. And just like any other form of social planning, the authors argue, such an allocation of death is the rightful province of a democratic society

Further Reflections on the Guillotine

The authors criticize the tone and substance of the current death penalty debate. The authors demonstrate that, as uncomfortable as it may sound, death is the commonality of social planning, and that all social policy decisions, including whether to have capital punishment, determine who will live and who will die. That we may execute some innocent people is an important consideration, but in light of the fact that without the death penalty other innocent people will be killed, it is not necessarily a reason to abandon it. If capital punishment deters crime, the point is obvious, but because the guilty will sometimes kill again if not executed, abolition would not obviously save innocent lives instead of merely displacing death. And just like any other form of social planning, the authors argue, such an allocation of death is the rightful province of a democratic society

Exploring the effects of written emotional disclosures (WED) on healthcare workers' (HCWs) mental health symptoms in the UK:A feasibility study

Background:Written emotional disclosure (WED) is a creative writing intervention that allows a person to confront emotions and traumatic experiences, which has been shown to produce well-being benefits and could be used to support healthcare workers (HCWs). Written emotional disclosure is usually delivered as a written intervention, and despite some research exploring the effects of other forms of typing interventions using emotional expression, expressive writing and structured writing, the efficacy of WED as a typing-based intervention is yet to be examined.Aim: The aim of this mixed method feasibility study was to address whether a writing or typing WED intervention would reduce HCW's mental health symptoms. Additionally, to address whether the WED intervention groups were acceptable to HCW as a supportive intervention.Findings: Fifty-five participants (seven males) aged between 22 and 60 took part in this study. The results demonstrate that both the writing and typing WED intervention groups significantly reduce mental health symptoms. Most participants (96.4%) deemed both the WED intervention groups acceptable.Conclusion: Therefore, WED interventions could potentially be integrated into existing counselling and therapeutic interventions to support HCW and could be implemented within the existing debrief and clinical supervision frameworks