‘What Means These Tears?’: Intersections Of Grief And Gender In Early Modern England

Drawing from characterizations of grieving in England during the early modern period, the thesis advances a series of examinations of literary dramatizations of grief and death. In the first chapter, the thesis presents some of the historical dynamics of the period that constructed ways of thinking about death and grief, namely, the elimination of Purgatory. The first chapter also introduces the period’s gendering of grief as feminine, and casting of the emotion as Catholic, arguing that those characterizations worked to bring grief under the same suspicion as females were. In other words, grief, like women, was typified as both virtuous and dangerous, leading to acute anxieties about interpreting and performing such an ambivalent emotion. The following two chapters examine the instances in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, and Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, where grief is depicted in gendered terms, and actually leads to transgressions of gender and other social values due to its ambivalent nature. The thesis closes with a chapter that considers the gendered aspects of dying well according to the ars moriendi tradition, and compares the social importance of performing good grief with that of the performance of a good death

Danish Borders of Identity:Dankshed, Social Capital, And Immigration

Questioning national identity is an ongoing issue in Denmark. Danskhed, the Danish word roughly translated as “Danishness,” has a firm foundation in the historical homogeneity of culture and ethnicity. However, as global migration increases in the twenty-first century, notably with the influx of Syrian refugees, Danish national identity has a crisis of its own. There are both negative and positive reactions to increased multiculturalism, as seen in the comparison between far right politics and activist groups fighting to help refugees in Denmark. This essay aims to find elements within Denmark that are redefining social capital as a method to create a cohesive multicultural society. By placing historical context alongside contemporary identity clashes, defining key terms, and combining the theory of social capital with personal observations through interviews, each section contributes to provide a multidimensional analysis of Danish identity. The introduction of different perspectives on the issue show that national identities are imagined constructs, and can be redefined to be more inclusive. Can danskhed change to work to benefit both those who are native Danes, and those who are not

The Relationship Between Generalized Anxiety In Mothers And Social Activity In Their Children's Free Play

The relationship between generalized anxiety in mothers and social activity in their children's free play was investigated by means of a behavior check-list and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. Thirty-six children were observed in three different nursery schools or daycare centers for ten days. These observations of their play were correlated with their mothers' anxiety scores and a small negative correlation, significant at the .10 level, was found. Analyses of variance were calculated among groups of nursery schools. These indicate that the children were more socially active toward children in the non-university-operated program and more socially active toward adults in a program that had more adults available. It also indicated that boys in the non-university program were less inclined to social interaction with adults than were girls

The effects of text messaging on memory recall in college students

Technology is constantly changing, and has enabled communication to be readily available everywhere, to everyone, including students in classrooms. Most devices are portable, capable of talking, texting, and surfing the internet. Many researchers have questioned the impact technology has on individuals, making multitasking a popular research area in cognitive psychology today. Simulated environments have been created and used to examine an individual’s performance while using a cell phone as they engage in everyday activities such as driving or walking. Results from the simulated environments have found that when individuals perform a primary task while conversing on a cell phone, they have lower performance on the primary task (Charlton, 2009). The majority of research on multitasking has examined how cell phone use affects driving performance. Because text messaging is a popular form of communication among young adults, an emerging area of multitasking research is now examining the effects of cell phones in learning environments. The purpose of the current study is to examine the various components of text messaging and determine which component is the most distracting for college students. Participants were randomly assigned to the control group, the receiving group, or the combined sending and receiving group. The group the participant was randomly assigned to determined their task with the cell phone during the video. Each participant watched a 10 minute video on memory. After the video ended, participants completed the posttest about the video. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine if there was an overall difference between group’s posttest scores. Results indicated a significant difference in posttest scores for the three groups. Results indicated the mean score for the control group was significantly different from the receiving group and the combined group. The combined group and receiving group did not differ significantly from one another. An ANOVA was used to determine the overall difference between groups on target questions. There was no statistically significant difference between the groups memory recall for the target questions. Pearson product moment correlation was used to investigate the relationships between participant’s perceived multitasking ability and their posttest score. There was a small negative correlation between the two variables, with high levels of individual beliefs about their ability to multitask associated with lower scores on the posttest. These findings go along with the threaded cognition theory, combining a novel task with a well learned task consumes a significant amount of cognitive resources and interferes with learning. The implications of the results and areas of future research are discussed

Consumer Behaviors Of Drone Delivery

Drone delivery was first introduced to the world by Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos on a 60 minutes episode. With the evolution of e-commerce and B2C delivery, Bezos had thought of a way to reduce the shipping time in an emerging market. He claimed that Amazon could deliver the product to the consumer quicker and more efficiently. Major players would follow suit by creating their own drone delivery service such as: DHL, Google, Dominos and UPS. This paper will focus on consumers’ perspectives of the future of drone delivery and analyze their willingness to adopt the service. An anonymous survey was conducted to see if there were consistent groupings of people that had similar viewpoints about drone delivery. The survey questions were based on a literature review regarding risks/insurance issues for commercial flight of drones and the diffusion of innovation theory. A cluster analysis, using SAS software, resulted in 4 groups of people that were compared to the 5 groups from Roger’s Adopter Category theory. The results suggested that almost 50% of the respondents would utilize a drone delivery service. That’s a significant increase given the fact that most if not all of them have never utilized or even seen a drone delivery service

Land use and eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) populations in three Hiwassee River tributary watersheds

The Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) is a cryptic, long-lived, species in the family Cryptobranchidae. Declines in populations of many aquatic species, including C. a. alleganiensis may be related to changes in the streamside and watershed physical characteristics. This study examined the potential link between changes in substrate condition (fine sediment accumulation) and differences in C. a. alleganiensis length frequency, mass, tail circumference, and tail fin height within three tributaries to the Hiwassee River in North Carolina. Changes in these characteristics will indicate which habitats support the healthiest C. a. alleganiensis populations. I characterized the substrate within the three streams and sampled C. a. alleganiensis populations from the three streams. Snout-vent length frequencies were not significantly different among streams. Mean mass, mass:snout-vent length, and mass adjusted for snout-vent length in C. a. alleganiensis populations within Tusquitee Creek were larger when compared to Fires Creek, but not Brasstown Creek. The larger C. a. alleganiensis observed within Tusquitee Creek were thought to be the result of the compounding influences of stream reach position, sediment accumulation, point discharges, and other associated variables

Multi-scale persistent homology

Data has shape and that shape is important. This is the anthem of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) as often stated by Gunnar Carlsson. In this paper we take a common method of persistence involving the growing of balls of the same size, and generalizing to balls of different sizes in order to better understand the outlier and coverage problems. We begin with a summary of classical persistence theory and stability. We then move on to generalizing the Rips and \v{C}ech complexes as well as generalizing the Rips lemma. We transition into 3 notions of stability in terms of bottleneck distance. For the outlier problem, we show that it is possible to interpolate between persistence on a set with no noise and a set with noise. For the coverage problem, we present an algorithm which provides a cheap way of covering a compact domain

Protonation of the isopropenylcyclopentadienyl anion : trapping of the isomer mixture with tetracyanoethylene

The isomers obtained by protonation of the isopropenylcyclopentadienyl anion undergo reactions on standing which change the relative percentages of each isomer in the mixture. The suitability of tetracyanoethylene as a trapping agent is confirmed by the internal consistency of the relative percentages of the Diels-Alder adducts and isomers. Trapping of the isomer mixture with tetracyanoethylene yields three stable Diels-Alder adducts. The adducts were isolated by fractional crystallization and identified by their characteristic nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectra, and elemental analyses. The adducts and their relative percentages were: 7-isopropylidene- 5,5,6,6-tetracyanonorbornene (11.4 ± 2.0%), 2-isopropenyl- 5,5,6,6-tetracyanonorbornene (28.9 ± 1.3%), and 3a,6,6- trihydro-4,4,5,5-tetracyanoindene (58.5 ± 3.2%). Protonation of the anion yielded 17 ± 3% dimethylfulvene, 25 ± 2% 2-isopropenyl-l,3-cyclopentadiene, and 57 ± 2% 1-isopropenyl- l,3-cyclopentadiene

A survey and evaluation of the professional literature on the over-aggressive primary school child, 1930-1948

The importance of the problem presented by the over-aggressive primary pupil can be justified by what the teachers generally talk about after the last school bus leaves, and they can take an easy breath. Almost invariably it is the over-aggressive behaviors of children, especially those who are always hitting and hurting someone else, pushing in line, destroying school materials, bullying, disobeying, quarreling, or having temper tantrums. It is believed that an up-to-date study to find what the authorities have said about the causes of over-aggression in the primary school child will be valuable to the teachers, and also indirectly helpful to the pupils themselves

Toward a triadic theory of Walker Percy : a semiotic reading of the novels

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between Walker Percy's work in linguistic theory and his fiction. An investigative apparatus was distilled from Percy's essay "Toward a Triadic Theory of Meaning" and applied to the language behavior of important characters from each of his novels