A Glimpse Into Childhood: Review of Susan Paul, \u3ci\u3eThe Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months\u3c/i\u3e, ed. Lois Brown.

Sources by or about the lives of young children are not widely or easily available; sources offering a glimpse into the life a young African American child are particularly scarce. For that reason alone, Lois Brown\u27s rediscovery of this long-neglected Memoir and Harvard University Press\u27s decision to publish it in a serious scholarly edition (in paper as well as cloth) is an important contribution to the literature. Brown describes the Memoir, originally published in Boston in 1835 by the white antislavery activist bookseller and printer James Loring, as a combination of two distinctive nineteenth- century literary forms, the didactic spiritual narrative and the juvenile biograph

Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence\u3c/i\u3eJohn C. Dann, ed.

The Revolution Remembered makes a major contribution to scholarship of the Revolutionary War by bringing together in one volume a sampling of the rich resources of the common soldier\u27s memory of that war as found in the Revolutionary War Pension and Land Warrant Records in Record Group 15 of the National Archives. Any student of the revolution who has used these records is aware of their virtually untapped potential for interpreting the way in which the war affected the common soldier both during the military campaigns themselves and in the decades after the men returned to their communities and families. The pension legislation of 1818, 1820, 1828, 1832, and afterward, spelled out which veterans and family members were eligible for aid, and required each of the 80,000 eventual applicants to submit certain types of documentation: discharge papers; commissions (in the case of officers); depositions describing the veteran\u27s service, including specific details about the officers under which he served and the battles in which he fought; schedules of property (to prove that the veteran was indigent and in need of his country\u27s assistance ); certificates of marriage; depositions testifying to the veteran\u27s good character, veracity, or comradeship in a revolutionary military unit. These records have been reproduced on microfilm by the National Archives in two versions: M804, containing on 2,670 reels the entire file, and M805, a selection of the most relevant records for each veteran in a more manageable 898-reel series

Triple Bottom Line Practices in the Classroom and Across the Curriculum for Agents of Change in Apparel Disciplines

Social responsibility, sustainability, and ethics are topics that have prominently emerged in courses within textiles and apparel curriculums over the past ten years in direct response to industry best practices. As the importance of these topics and practices, a triple bottom line approach, are recognized, there remains a challenge of how to weave this content holistically within an academic curriculum and transfer this learning to student’s real life implications. This interactive session will explore successful approaches for this integration presented by members of Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Practice (ESRAP)

The Religious Imagery in Emily Dickinson\u27s Love Poems

This paper will discuss to what extent Emily Dickinson\u27s heritage, environment, and experience formed her attitudes on religion and love, and will explain how successful she was in translating her intense emotional experience of love into poetry by examining her use of religious imagery

SWAMP BANDIT: The Legend of John Ashley and Florida\u27s Notorious Ashley Gang

This capstone presents the first five chapters of an historical novel about the life and legend of John Ashley and the group of men who make up his alleged criminal gang and reign in south Florida from 1911 to 1924. Considered the last frontier of the United States, Florida during this time is raw, untamed, and just beginning to be drained for land reclamation. Ashley makes local as well as national headlines, several of which are quoted in this story. Known as a “crack-shot” with a gun, he becomes a folk-hero to the local “Crackers,” native Floridians who keep from starving by fishing and hunting in the Everglades. Accused of killing a Seminole Chief’s son, Ashley sits through two trials, the first ending in a mistrial and the second interrupted by his escape from jail under mysterious circumstances. The local sheriff and several prominent citizens are involved in the Ashley Gang activities from the very beginning, and details emerge of how the “masterminds” of the gang stay obscured in the background to protect themselves while benefiting from the gang’s pursuits. The story escalates from the muck-slung dredging of the Everglades’ land reclamation to the posing of prominent citizens and vacationing millionaires at the Palm Beach Club, where the rich gamble and ever-elusive lawmen turn blind eyes to illegal activity

Pressure and Flow Validation of a Second Generation Gas Extraction Probe for a Hybrid Rocket Gas Extraction System

A gas extraction system (GES) has been designed for use with the hybrid rocket facility at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) for spectroscopic analysis of rocket plumes. While monitoring gas flow-rate and pressure, the GES extracts gases from the hybrid rocket plume and transports them to a mass spectrometer. This paper describes design and construction of a gas extraction probe (GEP) prototype capable of extracting gases directly from the plume. Gas dynamics equations were used to design two venturi-type GEP, converging and converging-diverging. The probe was tested with air to verify design assumptions. Flow rate through the U-arm and pressures for each probe were measured and compared

The degarbler—A program for correcting machine-read morse code

An IBM 7090 program automatically corrects garbled samples of English text. The garbles are intended to resemble those caused by Morse Code transmissions.The program has access to a vocabulary and a table of the Morse Code equivalents of the English alphabet.The correction rate on text in which 0–10% of the characters have been subjected to Morse Code garbles is about 70%. The apparent improvement in intelligibility is very marked