Brexit, A Brief Historical Analysis

This paper will specifically examine the historical impact of decolonization, integration and immigration on the 2020 Brexit decision. The research will identify key events that have contributed to a rise in British Euroscepticism which has continuously served as backdrop for British isolationism and anti-immigrant thought. A study of the increased movement of people attributed to mass mobilization following decolonization and integration will play a key role in highlighting the effects Brexit will have both on Britain and on an international platform. Emphasis will be placed on the implications this history and resulting policies will have on the economic prosperity and stability of future Britain. In this paper, the focus will largely be placed on the post-1973 period, after Britain’s entrance into the EEC. Analysis of the latter quarter of the 20th century will contribute to a better understanding of modern events, decisions and predictions

CVT/GPL phase 3 integrated testing

The hardware for 20 candidate shuttle program life sciences experiments was installed in the GPL and experiments were conducted during a 5-day simulated mission. The experiments involved humans, primates, rats, chickens, and marigold plants. All experiments were completed to the satisfaction of the experimenters. In addition to the scientific data gathered for each experiment, information was obtained concerning experiment hardware design and integration, experiment procedures, GPL support systems, and test operations. The results of the integrated tests are presented

Housing sexuality: domestic space and the development of female sexuality in the fiction of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson

A repeated theme in the fiction of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson is the use of domestic space as a tool for defining socially acceptable versions of female sexuality. Four novels that crystallize this theme are the focus of this dissertation: Winterson??s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) and Art and Lies (1994) and Carter??s The Magic Toyshop (1967) and Nights at the Circus (1984). Each chapter examines both authors?? treatments of a specific room in the house. Chapter II, "Parlor Games: Spatial Literacy in Formal Rooms," discusses how rooms used for formal occasions project a desirable public image of a family. More insidiously, however, the rooms protect the sexual order of the household, which often privileges male sexuality. Using the term spatial literacy to describe how characters interpret rooms, the chapter argues that characters with a high spatial literacy can detect not only the overt messages of these formal rooms, but also what underlies those messages. Chapter III, "Making Meals, Breaking Deals: Mothers, Daughters, and Kitchens," discusses the kitchen as the site of the production of domestic comfort. An analysis of who has primary responsibility for the production of comfort and whose comfort is privileged often reveals the power hierarchy of a given household. The chapter also examines the kitchen as a volatile space that can erupt with violence and the expression of repressed emotions and repressed sexuality. Finally, the kitchen is analyzed as a space of intimacy between mothers and daughters. Chapter IV, "Bedtime Stories: Assaulting Sexuality in the Bedroom," argues that the privacy of the adolescent bedroom is often disrupted by the surveillance of family members trying to control the sexual identity of the room??s occupant. The chapter also examines how social prescriptions encourage women to tolerate the interruption of their privacy. Each of the protagonists from these four novels has opportunities to learn about subverting the discursive constructions of domestic space, and several characters enact that subversion. This ability for subversion suggests the possibility for agency, a possibility that postmodernist thought often rejects, but one that Carter and Winterson allow

Conversion politics : motivations behind Clovis' baptism and the religious and political repercussions

This study examines the history of Gaul during a period of transition from Roman rule to the sovereignty of Germanic warrior kings, as well as from a society composed of individuals from multiple faiths to the establishment of Catholicism as the official religion of this region. In doing so, this work focuses on the conversion of King Clovis, first king of the Franks, to Catholicism in the early fifth century. It examines the religious environment of the area that he conquered, his ultimate conversion to Catholicism including his potential motivations for doing so, and the repercussions of his decision on Gallic society, the Catholic Church, as well as the Frankish monarchy. It argues that, while it is likely there were several factors that influenced his decision, his eventual public adoption of the Catholic faith was primarily motivated by the aid that an alliance with the Catholic Church could bring him in achieving his territorial and authoritative expansion goals. By publically committing to the Catholic faith, Clovis established Catholicism as the official religion of the France, thereby helping to set the foundation for Western Europe to become a Christendom during the medieval period. Along with this, he established a relationship between the Catholic Church and the Frankish, later French, monarchy that would persist for over a millennium and would greatly benefit both entities involved.Department of HistoryIntroduction and historiography -- Religious landscape : the religions of Gaul before and during the time of Clovis -- Conversion politics : the motivations behind Clovis' baptism -- Repercussions : the religious and political results of Clovis' conversion -- Catholic kings : the influence of Clovis' baptism on French coronation ceremony.Thesis (M.A.

Arguing With Himself: Mark Lamos and the Anatomy of Directing Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at New York City Opera.

Opera has long been the dominion of singers, composers, and conductors. Opera scholarship has been produced largely by music historians, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists. Recently, the trend is changing in opera studies to include those artists chiefly responsible for mounting productions: opera directors. These studies, however, have focused primarily on critical reflections on the director’s final production rather than the rehearsal practices and directorial methods employed to foster a production to opening night. As the scope of opera scholarship is expanding to include performance texts, a study detailing the day-by-day, moment-to-moment challenges and triumphs of an opera director in rehearsal shall provide greater clarity and appreciation of the often ineffable craft of directing for the stage. The resume of director Mark Lamos includes productions on Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, and a Tony Award for the Hartford Stage under his leadership. His 2003 production of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera for New York City Opera was an ideal choice for documenting a rehearsal process since Lamos endeavored to reimagine the opera Mozart originally composed. First, this study provides the relevant historical context in which Mozart wrote La finta giardiniera in 1774-75. Second, the rehearsal log captures Lamos working with the entire production team beginning with the first company meeting through Final Dress Rehearsal. The log is inspired methodologically by ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation reports produced in the social sciences to gather information and make meaning of a cultural event, namely, an opera director at work. The log of nineteen rehearsals is divided into three chapters that include the early rehearsals to stage the production concept, “stumble” and full run-throughs, and technical and dress rehearsals. Each rehearsal day is subdivided into three sections that introduces the rehearsal themes (Exposition), records the real-time proceedings of each rehearsal (Development), and analyzes Lamos’s directorial choices in the context of other directors faced with similar artistic challenges (Recapitulation). Lastly, the Conclusion includes critical reviews of Lamos’s production, an analysis of Lamos’s directing methodology, and considers how my study contributes to a nascent field in opera scholarship.PHDTheatreUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99811/1/acantrel_1.pd

Materials Characterization Using Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameters and Harmonic Generation: Effects of Crystalline and Amorphous Structures

The importance of nonlinearity in the description of material behavior is gaining widespread attention. Nonlinearity plays a major, if not dominating, role in a number of material properties. For example, properties that are important in engineering design such as thermal expansion or the pressure dependence of optical refraction are inherently nonlinear [1]. New assembley techniques such as the use of ultrasonic gauges to determine the loading of critical fasteners depend upon nonlinear properties of the fasteners [2]. Areas of considerable fundamental interest in nonlinearity include lattice dynamics [3], radiation stress in solids [4,5], and nonlinear optics [6

Highlights of OH, H2SO4, and methane sulfonic acid measurements made aboard the NASA P-3B during Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific

Measurements of hydroxyl radical (OH), sulfuric acid (H2SO4), and methane sulfonic acid (MSA) were performed aboard the NASA P-3B using the selected ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry technique during the Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) study. Photochemical box model calculations of OH concentrations yielded generally good agreement with an overall tendency to overestimate the measured OH by ∼20%. Further analysis reveals that this overestimation is present only at altitudes greater than ∼1.5 km, with the model underestimating OH measurements at lower altitudes. Boundary layer H2SO4 measurements, performed in a volcanic plume off the southern coast of Japan, revealed some of the largest marine boundary layer H2SO4 concentrations ever observed and were accompanied by new particle formation. Nighttime measurements of OH, H2SO4, and MSA in the remote pacific off Midway Island revealed significant boundary layer concentrations of H2SO4 and MSA, indicating evidence of nighttime boundary layer oxidation processes but in the absence of OH. A cursory exploration of the sources of production of the H2SO4 and MSA observed at night is presented