When Write is Wrong

A trio of girls attempt to have an education in a society where it is inappropriate for females to learn. Malaya is the group\u27s leader, and is called into question (and later punished) when the town officials find evidence of their educational practices

Second Chances for the Second City\u27s Vacant Properties: An Analysis of Chicago\u27s Policy Approaches to Vacancy, Abandonment, & Blight

Addressing the externalities of vacancy and blight is a major challenge for the Chicago metropolitan area. While neighborhoods on the South and West sides of Chicago struggle with blight, neglect, and abandonment, downtown Chicago and the northern neighborhoods and suburbs experience stronger market conditions. This crisis has amplified entrenched socioeconomic divisions and ultimately burdens the entire region by perpetuating a cycle of poverty, violence, and physical and social disorder that tarnish Chicago’s image. This Note outlines Chicago’s vacant property challenge by discussing the history of urban decline in Chicago. It examines factors that led to a high level of vacant and abandoned properties, namely long-term trends of declining population, suburbanization, and deindustrialization, in addition to the foreclosure crisis of recent years. The Note assesses the impacts of concentrated vacancy and blight, and then analyzes the legal and policy approaches the Chicago-area local governments have taken to addressing those impacts. Generally, the existing legal regime has been insufficient. Finally, this Note proposes enhancements to existing programs in order to drive revitalization efforts. Part IV proceeds with recommendations for legislation that will allow Chicago to more aggressively manage and reutilize the region’s vacant land and abandoned building stock. Vacancy and abandonment have wrought devastation on Chicago’s neighborhoods on a scale much greater than did the Great Chicago Fire. However, just as the city did after that disaster, with creative and aggressive policies the region will again reemerge and rebuild

Second Chances for the Second City\u27s Vacant Properties: An Analysis of Chicago\u27s Policy Approaches to Vacancy, Abandonment, & Blight

Addressing the externalities of vacancy and blight is a major challenge for the Chicago metropolitan area. While neighborhoods on the South and West sides of Chicago struggle with blight, neglect, and abandonment, downtown Chicago and the northern neighborhoods and suburbs experience stronger market conditions. This crisis has amplified entrenched socioeconomic divisions and ultimately burdens the entire region by perpetuating a cycle of poverty, violence, and physical and social disorder that tarnish Chicago’s image. This Note outlines Chicago’s vacant property challenge by discussing the history of urban decline in Chicago. It examines factors that led to a high level of vacant and abandoned properties, namely long-term trends of declining population, suburbanization, and deindustrialization, in addition to the foreclosure crisis of recent years. The Note assesses the impacts of concentrated vacancy and blight, and then analyzes the legal and policy approaches the Chicago-area local governments have taken to addressing those impacts. Generally, the existing legal regime has been insufficient. Finally, this Note proposes enhancements to existing programs in order to drive revitalization efforts. Part IV proceeds with recommendations for legislation that will allow Chicago to more aggressively manage and reutilize the region’s vacant land and abandoned building stock. Vacancy and abandonment have wrought devastation on Chicago’s neighborhoods on a scale much greater than did the Great Chicago Fire. However, just as the city did after that disaster, with creative and aggressive policies the region will again reemerge and rebuild

Evaluation of the image quality of an experimental lenticular film system for radiographic applications

A lenticular film system designed to suppress image degrading crossover during dual screen radiographic exposure is proposed and evaluated. The lenticular screen consists of two sheets of crossed cylindrical lenslets each with a frequency of 25 lenslets/mm. A numerical analysis via optical ray tracing compares the theoretical frequency response of the proposed system to that of a conventional radiographic film. It shows an enhancement in the response by a factor of two, for frequencies 1-4 c/mm. Experimental measurements made on simulations of the proposed system using Kodak film type, SO-241 confirm the predicted improvement in the mid-frequency range. The proposed lenticular system reduces the need to absorb crossover illumination with a tinted film base by imaging crossover illumination with lenslets molded into the film base. By using the crossover illumination as part of the image forming exposure, a reduced radiation dose is required to obtain comparable or improved image quality

The influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on Coleridge and Wordsworth

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1939. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

A survey of statistical typewriting in selected businesses and industries of the Boston area

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Big Night

MARY JEAN came clattering down the stairs, her shoes flapping on her feet with every step. She skidded around the corner and pulled herself to a stop in front of the big chair where I sat reading..

How do public servants perceive the notion of civic virtue?

Organisational citizenship behaviour has been an active field of research for over three decades with research typically focusing on helpful and sportsmanlike behaviours or, conversely, examining destructive or criminal acts. Between these two is the frequently ignored civic virtue which includes questioning, making suggestions and challenging organisational norms. Civic virtue is the least researched, least performed, and the least popular organisational behaviour with it often being deemed an act of deviancy. Yet importantly, in terms of the transforming public service agenda, it is also the organisational behaviour that links most closely with organisational improvement. In pursuing this under-researched field, interpretivism provides a salient philosophical framework for the operationalisation of the thesis which utilises an in-depth qualitative approach to explore the lived realities of public servants, and seeks to advance the limited knowledge of civic virtue, set against the backdrop of public service citizenship. Using the lens of symbolic interactionism the thesis contributes an incremental advance in research method; specifically projective image elicitation, by using the metaphorical power of contextualised cartoon images to explore individuals’ perception of the workplace and their The thesis proposes a contribution to theory in recommending that public service citizenship promotes a predilection to bifurcate behaviours demonstrated by others and self into the act and underpinning values. Within public services this interpretative process gives precedence to the underpinning values; and promotes an environment where disdained behaviours are pardoned if the underpinning values are deemed honourable. This concept is termed value governance. Drawing on value governance, a model emerged which indicates that public servants predominately enact civic virtue when they perceive their values are seriously contested; otherwise their collectivist tendencies are dominant The discovery of value governance is significant in informing the conception of a dialogic public service citizenship; a citizenship which has its foundation in publicness but which is also able to face the challenges of civicness