“It made them Forget about the War for a Minute”: Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force Entertainment Units during the Second World War

On 3 February 1944, wounded Canadian service personnel recuperating in a British hospital were delighted to hear that a concert party, part of the Canadian Army Show, was in the area and would be performing for patients that evening. The variety was extremely well-received; singing, dancing and comedy routines seemed to be exactly was the injured needed to raise their spirits. After the show was over, a man in a wheelchair approached performer James Cameron and exclaimed “it was so good to see that—please come back again.” The Captain in charge of this satisfied patient wrung Cameron’s hand and enthusiastically declared “First Canadian show I’ve seen, Major-Brother, and it was like mail from home.” Under consideration here is the development and function of the Second World War Canadian military entertainment units that inspired such comments

Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc (The “Achilleas”) [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 275

REMOTENESS OF CONTRACTUAL DAMAGESOn 9 July 2008, the House of Lords handed down its decision in Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc (The “Achilleas”).1  Overturning a series of lower decisions, the House of Lords unanimously decided to restrict the damages available for the breach of a charterparty caused by the late re-delivery of the ship.  The case will undoubtedly be important for those in the shipping industry, but will also be important for the development of the doctrine of remoteness of damages in contract law.

THE JOURNEYS OF SIX MOM PEDAGOGUES: ENACTING PERSONAL CONVICTIONS AND DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO

Home education or “homeschooling” began to re-emerge in the late 1960’s in the US, parallel to civil rights initiatives and shifting educational policies (Murphy, 2014). Nevertheless, few studies have been dedicated to examining the lives and practices of homeschool parents (Goldberg, 2021; Lois, 2006; Ray, 2021). Rather, topics have centered on homeschool demographics, academic outcomes, and challenges (Hauseman, 2011; Isenberg, 2007; Lines, 2000; Shepherd, 2010). The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the lived experiences of six homeschool mothers’ everyday lives and the meanings assigned to their pedagogical decisions and related feelings in their journeys of becoming Mom Pedagogues. The study took place in a metropolitan area in the southeastern region of the US. Six mothers, who were members of a single home school group, were recruited through snowball sampling and were all female, white and middle class. The study took place across nine months, including 39 weekly home visits and final, in-depth interviews. Data sources included field notes, audio recordings, and photographs taken by participants. At each visit, seminal moments of the week were represented and mediated through mothers’ photographs, representing current experiences, and recalling and memories of their childhoods in traditional school settings. Key tenets of Bioecological and Sociocultural Theories were drawn upon to illuminate how the mothers viewed their roles and enacted their evolving identities. Selected frameworks included Women’s Ways of Knowing, Ethic of Care, and Foucault’s analysis of power and discipline. These contributed to understanding how the mothers developed their personal epistemological beliefs and processes of coming to know, linked to their present-day concerns and life histories. Three findings emerged that include (a) the identification of turning points in participants’ lives that led to homeschooling, (b) the role of desire, ethic of care, and need to ensure emancipatory learning experiences for their children, and (c) the identification of convictions to ensure learning experiences drew upon their children’s needs, everyday lives, interests and a tolerance for an uncertainty they were making the right decisions for their children. Findings illustrate the ways in which the mothers aimed to fill their lives with direction and meaning in accordance with their lifelong values and beliefs, taking advantage of everyday experiences imbued with their children’s decisions and desires to enact and pursue meaningful learning. Implications for future research includes the need to value participants’ reflections from their childhoods to motherhoods, as they navigated their mothering and pedagogical roles in their efforts to disrupt the status quo of formal educational for their children

Annulment Funding Co Ltd v Cowey and another [2010] EWCA 711 First Plus Financial Group v Hewett [2010] EWCA Civ 312

RECENT PROBLEMS IN UNDUE INFLUENCEAfter the flood of litigation at the end of the 20th Century, it was hoped that the House of Lords decisions in O’Brien and Etridge would put an end to the uncertainties facing those wishing to take security over a family home.  But as seen in the recent Court of Appeal decisions in Annulment Funding Co Ltd v Cowey and another [2010] EWCA 711 (“Cowey”) and First Plus Financial Group v Hewett [2010] EWCA Civ 312 (“Hewett”), there still remain some interesting questions and potential problems for the unwary lender

Review of No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton by Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon

Review of No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton by Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon

A contingency approach to the study of the implementation of management information systems.

Business AdministrationDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.

Patchett and another v Swimming Pool & Allied Trades Association Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 717

SURVIVING A FALL INTO THE DEEP ENDIn spite of the vast increase in contracts entered into over the internet, there are still very few appellant level cases concerning this process.  It was therefore of great interest when the Court of Appeal gave its decision in Patchett and another v Swimming Pool & Allied Trades Association Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 717

The Thirteenth Amendment, Prison Labor Wages, and Interrupting the Intergenerational Cycle of Subjugation

This Comment argues that meager or no compensation for prisoners, who are disproportionately black and other persons of color, entraps them and their children in a cycle of subjugation that dates back to the days of slavery, and this Comment proposes to interrupt this cycle by setting a minimum wage for prisoners and creating college savings accounts for their children. As part of the cycle, when people enter prisons and the doors behind them close, so do their families’ bank accounts and the doors to their children’s schools. At the same time, the cells next to them open, ready to welcome their children