Poem, Swim

Poem, Swim is a collection of my poems written during the past year while I was living in Spain. They encompass my experiences in a foreign culture as well as bringing together all that I have learned about in poetry in the classroom. Influenced by certain poets like Charles Olsen and Robert Creeley, this manuscript is my attempt at writing a publishable book of poetry. A cohesive flow is maintained throughout the manuscript with reoccurring images such as sunshine, water, women and the longing for all of these things, and my attempts at breaking open the construction of the poem, this done by exposing the mechanics of the thought process and writing process

Conversion and Conversation : Speech and Social Change in Jean Toomer\u27s Cane

Critics have long debated the complexities of spoken language in Jean Toomer’s Cane. By examining Cane through the philosophical lens of Hannah Arendt, this thesis argues for the importance of the differences between individual and communal language as they appear in the text. The concept of communal language is shown both through Arendt’s conception of speech, and through the idea of folk-speech as it appears in Cane. These forms of speech are then contrasted with individualistic language, language created by and for the speaker, and shows the differences between the two in regards to social power. Cane privileges the idea of a communal voice over that of an individual voice, and claims that the individual voice is unproductive, while the communal voice carries the potential for social change

Natural cytotoxicity of haemopoietic cell populations against murine lymphoid tumours.

Homozygous nude and normal mice of 3 strains, BALB/c, CBA and C57BL, were used as sources of nucleated haemopoietic "natural killer" (NK) cells. These killer cells could lyse a wide range of syngeneic and allogeneic lymphoid tumour cell lines in vitro, and it was found that cell suspensions from nude mice were always significantly more active than those from normal mice, and that the most active effector population was a polymorph-enriched peritoneal-exudate cell suspension. Eosinophils did not appear to be involved in the phenomenon, and mononuclear peritoneal-exudate cell suspensions were actually highly inhibitory. Three non-lymphoid tumours, a carcinoma, a fibrosarcoma and a mastocytoma, were totally resistant to in vitro lysis. Although all susceptible tumour cell lines were C-type virus-associated, not all of these tumours were killed by all strain sources of spleen cells, indicating a specificity of killing

Exploring the tensile response in small carbon fibre composite bundles

Small composite bundles, AS4 carbon fibre epoxy, with a restricted number of reinforcing fibres, ca. 20, showed a progressive failure when tested in tension. In-situ acoustic emission observations under tensile load reveal that numerous fibres fail before ultimate failure of the small composite bundle, suggesting that isolated and individual fibre failures occur without compromising the integrity of the neighboring fibres or the small composite bundle’s overall mechanical performance. The average strength of the carbon fibres in small composite bundles was 9.6% higher than in standard lab-scale composite specimens using the same fibre type