An examination of the influence of the Spanish Civil War on American writing

Ernest Hemingway\u27s celebrated novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, along with the successful motion picture version, introduced millions of Americans to a nation which had not been widely exploited in their literature since the days of Washington Irving. But in 1940, when this novel appeared, few readers are more than dimly aware that it was only a small, if distinguished, part of a considerable body of writing inspired by the tragic events in Spain between 1936 and 1939. Far more than a local conflict, the Spanish civil war was a catalyst to intellectual and literary activity throughout the Western World, and especially in England and the United States

The relationship of high school teachers\u27 job satisfaction to principal support

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between high school teacher job satisfaction, using an instrument that measures Herzberg\u27s Two Factor Theory and principal support, using an adapted instrument from House\u27s theory of administrative support. Data were collected by a team of researchers from 34 self-selected public Virginia high schools and consisted of 1276 teacher participants. Correlation and regression analyses were performed to find the relationship between teacher job satisfaction and principal support. The results showed no significant relationship between principal support and high school teacher job satisfaction. This may be explained in part by the weakness of the Professional Job Satisfaction Survey (PJSS). The data on the Principal Support Scale (PSS) revealed two distinct factors of principal support that related back to House\u27s original theory of administrative support (DiPaola, in press). A significant positive correlation was found between the expressive and instrumental dimensions of principal support (r = .796, p \u3c .01). A significant negative correlation was found between job satisfiers and job dissatisfiers (r = -.421, p \u3c .05). Based on these findings future researchers should continue to explore this topic with a more reliable measurement of job satisfaction. Future researchers should continue to explore the relevance of Herzberg\u27s two factor theory in education and examine the effect of external forces on both job satisfaction and principal support. Continued use of the PSS for measuring principal support in relationships with other school social variables is also strongly supported by this study

A variant of the Mukai pairing via deformation quantization

We give a new method to prove a formula computing a variant of Caldararu's Mukai pairing \cite{Cal1}. Our method is based on some important results in the area of deformation quantization. In particular, part of the work of Kashiwara and Schapira in \cite{KS} as well as an algebraic index theorem of Bressler, Nest and Tsygan in \cite{BNT},\cite{BNT1} and \cite{BNT2} are used. It is hoped that our method is useful for generalization to settings involving certain singular varieties.Comment: 8 pages. Comments and suggestions welcom