Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History

Feminist art historians reassessed French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a period in which her work coincidentally received steady exposure in major museum exhibitions. This thesis examines how the feminist art historical project intersects with exhibitions that give prominence to Morisot’s work. Critical reviews by Morisot scholars argue that more frequent display of the artist’s work has not correlated to nuanced interpretation. Moreover, prominent feminist scholars and museum theorists maintain that curators virtually exclude their contributions. Attending to these recurrent concerns, this thesis charts shifts in emphases and inquiry in writing centered on Morisot to survey the extent to which curators convey new constructions of her artistic, social, and historical identities. This analysis will observe how distinct exhibition forms—the retrospective, the Impressionism blockbuster, and the gendered “women Impressionists” show—may frame Morisot’s work differently according to their organizing principles

Studies of Effectiveness of Commercial Home Treatment Systems

Eleven home water systems were tested representing six different types of filtering systems. Tests were made for Sulfates, Nitrates, Phosphate, Iron and Escherichia coli and Enterobacter aerogenes before and after passing through a home treatment system. All of the systems removed iron adequately but had little effect on the removal of nitrates, phosphates, sulfates or control of pH. Since none of the ground waters was contaminated by coli- forms, nothing was established regarding the effectiveness of bacterial removal by these systems

REVISION OF THE LITERARY CANON: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

O artigo trata das modificações no processo de revisão do cânone literário dos Estados Unidos. De acordo com o autor, o novo cânone, muit maior e mais abrangente do que o antigo, inclui várias minorias antes excluídas. Entretanto, a falta de critérios claros ou explícitos, ou de julgamentos oficiais para a sua formação, desmistifica a criação do cânone literário, que, apesar de eternamente sujeito a mudanças, é alterado deliberadamente. Ao explorar as razões dessas mudanças, especialmente de ordem política, o autor acusa o comprometimento com a qualidade literária. No decorrer do artigo, a obra "Heath Anthology of American Literature" é descrita pelo mesmo como maior representante do atual cânone literário

Identifying the Ordinary High Water Mark Through the Use of UAVs

The accurate determination of the Ordinary High Water Mark (OHWM) on streams and shorelines has taken on an increased importance since the recent redefinition of “Waters of the United States” by the U.S EPA. The redefinition has increased the amount of land and water over which the federal government has jurisdiction. The OHWM helps define the limits of those jurisdictional waters. Accurate, consistent, and efficient OHWM delineation practices are thus essential to proper and effective implementation of these laws and regulations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program and other agencies. Through this research it is shown that using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to capture aerial photography can be helpful in the identification of the OHWM where accessibility, safety, and/or cost might make normal delineation techniques prohibitive. For this research a quadcopter UAV was flown for the purpose of taking aerial photographs of the banks of streams in southwest Ohio. The photos were then used to see if the natural indicators of the OHWM were apparent. At many of the streams photographs were easy to collect in a timely manner. Natural indicators such as change in vegetation and soil were present. However due to restrictive conditions at some streams such as overgrown grasses and trees, the OHWM was difficult to discern. The verification of the adequacy and accuracy of the OHWM identification, based on the photographs and videos at the studied streams, was handled by wading into the streams or climbing down over the streambanks and inserting colored flags along the line that defined the OHWM. These flags were identifiable in the UAV images and thus allowed for an assessment of the usefulness of such images for defining the OHWM. In locations where UAV’s can be flown, any party who is interested in making a quick and efficient determination of the Ordinary High Water Mark should consider the use of UAVs

Disability and Autobiography: Enabling Discourse

Produced by Hawai'i University Affiliated Program on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Frank Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, and School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies

Illness, Disability, and Ethical Life Writing

In his article “Illness, Disability, and Ethical Life Writing,” G. Thomas Couser discusses illness and disability as related to ethical Life Writing. Since the issues came to his attention in the early 1990s, narratives of illness and disability have continued to proliferate in the US. And today, even as psychiatry moves away from narrative therapy toward drug therapy, narrative competence is being emphasized in the treatment of non-mental illness. Whether inside or outside the clinic, narratives of illness and disability can be in and of themselves restorative, if not healing. And yet, the production of such narratives is not without ethical pitfalls. Professional ethics do not necessarily prevent violation of privacy or other harms