War Poetry: Impacts on British Understanding of World War One

The military and technological innovations deployed during World War I ushered in a new phase of modern warfare. Newly developed technologies and weapons created an environment which no one had seen before, and as a result, an entire generation of soldiers and their families had to learn to cope with new conditions of shell shock. For many of those affected, poetry offered an outlet to express their thoughts, feelings and experiences. For Great Britain, the work of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves have been highly recognized, both at the time and in the present. Newspaper articles and reviews published by prominent companies of the time make it clear that each of these poets, who expressed strong opinions and feelings toward the war, deeply influenced public opinion. At the start of the war, Rupert Brooke’s poetry, and those like him, pushed the public to favor Britain’s involvement in the war because of their favorable and patriotic attitude towards it. Such patriotism sparked images of the way a soldier should behave and look and inserted the idea that the fate of the nation is everything. As the war progressed though, the poets began to express a darker twist on the country’s involvement. This dissenting opinion from poets like Sassoon, Owen and Graves incited irritation and anger from the British public because of their descriptive and shocking contents. Furthermore, their poetry created a new memory of the war which encapsulated its darkest, most painful realities. The influences of Sassoon, Owen, and Graves lasted much longer than did that of poets like Brooke and have shaped the memory of World War I in British history

Analysis of resource control in nondeterministic mobile ad hoc network systems : an unmanned aerial vehicle example

This thesis utilized known information about a dynamic graph in which resource needy nodes act as relays for control information to a supplier node in order to characterize system performance and analyze the effects of change on the system. The connectivity, or information sharing, was based on distance and since every node moved around a defined space, the connectivity of the graph changed constantly. Several different controllers and scenarios are investigated in order to extract the uniqueness in each performance curve which created a better understanding of this near nondeterministic system. One such application for this dynamic system is the automation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This paper utilizes the UAV example in order to bring life, and motivate this research. Note that there are many other applications and problems with similar voids in understanding that this approach could be applied. The United States Department of Defense is increasingly utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to support current operations. As of August 2010, there were 207 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) sorties flown per day to provide essential battlespace situational awareness for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom [1]. This paper proposes an implementation of an autonomous UAV network that assumes cutting edge technologies can be combined to provide infinite\u27 ISR over a given area. The particular dynamics of this problem are characterized using systems techniques while changes to the performance factors on the system are found using information about the root system.\u2

Heart disease in patients with type 1 diabetes and the effects of exercise

In the modern society there has been such a focus placed on exercise and type 2 diabetes, but the same focus is not placed on the connection between type 1 diabetes and exercise. The risk of cardiovascular disease with type 1 diabetes has also been brushed to the side in favor of discussing other heart disease risk factors. The culmination of research in the topics of diabetes, heart disease, and exercise have been combined into one research paper to portray the interwoven connection between the three more accurately.Thesis (B.?

Laboratory Modeling of Critical Hydraulic Conditions for the Initiation of Piping

Seepage-related erosion is one of the predominant mechanisms responsible for incidents and failures of dams and levees. Current geotechnical engineering practice consists of comparing expected exit gradients with the critical gradient of the soil at the seepage exit point. The critical gradient is generally considered as the ratio of soil buoyant unit weight and the unit weight of water, suggesting that the critical gradient only depends on the void ratio and specific gravity of the solids. However, in the field and in research, it has been observed that piping can initiate at average gradients much lower than unity due to concentrations in flow and non-vertical exit faces. Therefore, there is a need for deeper understanding of the granular scale mechanisms of the piping erosion process. This thesis presents the results of a laboratory study to assess the effects that soil properties and exit face configurations have on the potential for initiation of piping and the piping mechanisms. By using a laboratory device designed and constructed specifically for this study, the critical gradients needed to initiate piping in a variety of sandy soils were measured to assess the effects that parameters such as gradation, grain size, and grain shape have on the critical gradients. The tests are also used to observe the grain scale mechanisms of piping erosion initiation. The ultimate goal of the study is to develop an empirical, but mechanism-based, grain-scale model that can take into account the effects of converging flows, non-horizontal exit faces, and soil properties while assessing the potential for piping erosion to occur

Training the Whole Counselor: Qualitative Analyses of Professional School Counselor Training in Central Virginia

The profession of school counseling is a dynamic one that has endured the evolving American educational landscape for over 100 years. This changing landscape has contributed to a sense of role confusion for professional school counselors in the United States. With much variation among states, school divisions, and even schools within the same division regarding the appropriate role of the professional school counselor, the research attempted to determine professional school counselor perceptions of their division-level and building-level training for their ASCA-defined inappropriate responsibilities in four school divisions in central Virginia. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the research studied the lived experiences of professional school counselors in relation to their work. A qualitative survey instrument was distributed and follow-up interviews were conducted with professional school counselors from four school divisions in central Virginia

Fish Community Trends in the Greenup Pool, Ohio River

Bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix), collectively referred to as Asian carps, are invasive species that may negatively affect native species through plankton resource exploitation mechanisms. Bighead and silver carp escaped into the Mississippi River basin in the early 1970s and have been steadily migrating upstream. The Greenup Pool lies upstream of the current known invasion of Asian carp in the Ohio River. The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) has conducted probabilistic electrofishing community surveys in the Greenup Pool since 2006 on a five-year cycle. The objective of this study was to compare body condition of commonly collected fishes between ORSANCO survey years using relative weight and Fulton’s condition factor. Channel catfish decreased in mean relative weight between 2011 and 2016, and sauger increased in mean relative weight between 2006-2011 and 2006-2016. The second objective of this study was to explore potential trends in fish community distribution in the Greenup Pool using nonmetric multidimensional scaling. The fish community appeared to show dissimilarity between the lower Greenup Pool and the middle and upper pools. This study will serve as a baseline for the Greenup Pool preceding the invasion of bigheaded carps for future studies and comparisons