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Slavery in Massachusetts: Did Its Peculiar Nature Contribute to the Rise of Antislavery Advocates before 1776?
The purpose of this paper was to discover whether slavery in Massachusetts was distinct from that institution in the South. Slavery in this colony was an admixture of servitude and bondage due to several factors. Massachusetts physical environment, climate, and township system precluded the implementation of plantation type slavery. Secondly, Puritan ideas about the family and education resulted in slaves living with and becoming a part of the families they served, as well as receiving a rudimentary education in religious, academic, and occupational fields. Lastly, slaves in Massachusetts, unlike those in the South, had access to the same courts as whites, a fact that eventually led to their freedom in 1780. Thus, slavery was a unique and āpeculiarā institution in Massachusetts
Triumph of an Idea_Japanese Internment and the Survival of Democracy
The principles found in the Declaration of Independence have been what has united the disparate cultures and ethnicities that make up the United States of America. Racial prejudice, war hysteria, and political opportunism have attempted at times to smother these principles. Such a time occurred during World War II when the Japanese Americans were interned. But, those in the academic community, the church communities, and the Nisei themselves ensured that the democratic principles of the Declaration would ultimately triumph
Gerald Ford and the Evangelical Vote in the 1976 Presidential Election
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Role of antimicrobial peptides in lung cancer therapy
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Reducing the health risks of severe winter weather among older people in the United Kingdom: an evidence-based intervention
Excess winter morbidity and mortality among older people remain significant public health issues in those European countries which experience relatively mild winter temperatures, particularly the United Kingdom (UK), Ireland, Portugal and Spain. In the UK, episodes of severe winter weather, when ambient temperatures fall below 5x C, are associated with peaks in general practitioner consultations,hospital admissions, and cardiovascular deaths among those aged over 65. While research indicates that such health risks could be substantially reduced
by the adoption of appropriate behavioural strategies, accessible and credible advice on how older people can reduce risk during ācold snapsā is lacking. This paper describes a programme of research that aimed: (a) to translate the relevant scientific literature into practical advice for older people in order to reduce health risk during episodes of severe winter weather ; and (b) to integrate this advice with a severe winter weather āEarly Warning Systemā developed by the UK Met Office. An advice booklet was generated through a sequential process of systematic review, consensus development, and focus group discussions with older people. In a subsequent field trial, a combination of the Met Office āEarly Warning Systemā and the advice booklet produced behavioural change among
older people consistent with risk reduction. The results also show that long-held convictions about āhealthy environments ā and anxieties about fuel costs are barriers
to risk reduction
The balance of truth and entertainment
This thesis project worked in tandem with the THEA 434 course, the capstone course for
B.F.A. Theatre Majors in the Musical Theatre Option. Worth three credit hours, this course is
titled āImmersion Experienceā. Informally it is referred to as the āCabaret Classā. This is due to
the courseās focus on, and exploration of cabaret performance. Cabaret performance manifests in
song, dance, drama, etcetera, and is categorically performed in a bar, restaurant, casino, hotel, or
nightclub that has a stage. In the musical theatre industry, this is more specifically the
intertwining of music and a monologue or spoken word to tell a story and connect with the
audience. The theme was āBerlin and Blake...Musical Theatre Pioneers of the 1920'sā, referring
to composers Irving Berlin and Eubie Blake. Each of the eight assignments for the course must
include a song by Irving Berlin and/or Eubie Blake in some capacity. As previously stated, there
are eight assignments for this course. We were given one to two weeks for each assignment.
During that time we were expected to find the sheet music for the piece, create a story, intertwine
the two, and have materials prepared to communicate our idea to our accompanist, all before
performing these new pieces for our peers. Through this course, I aimed to examine the balance
of honesty and entertainment in cabaret performance.Honors CollegeThesis (B.?
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