Somebody's daughter : the portrayal of daughter-parent relationships by contemporary women writers from German-speaking countries

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the complexities of daughterhood as portrayed by nine contemporary women writers: from former West Germany(Gabriele Wohmann, Elisabeth Plessen), from former East Germany (Hedda Zinner, Helga M. Novak), from Switzerland (Margrit Schriber) and from Austria (Brigitte Schwaiger, Jutta Schutting, Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch, Christine Haidegger). Ten prose-works which span a period of approximately ten years, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, are analysed according to theme and character. In the Introduction, we trace the historical development of women's writing in German, focusing on the most significant female authors from the Romantic period through to the rise of the New Women's Movement in the late sixties. We then consider a definition of 'Frauenliteratur' and the extent to which autobiography has become a typical feature of such women's writing. In the ensuing four chapters we highlight in psychological and sociological terms the mourning process a daughter undergoes after her father's death; the identification process between daughter and mother; the daughter's reaction to being adopted; and the daughter's decision to commit suicide. We see to what extent the environment in which each of these daughters is brought up as well as past events in German history shape the daughter's attitude towards her parents. Since we are studying the way in which these relationships are portrayed, we also need to take into account the narrative strategies employed by these modern women writers. In the light of our analysis of content and form we are able to examine the possible intentions behind such personal portraits: the act of writing as a form of self-discovery and self-therapy as well as the sharing of female experience. We conclude by suggesting the direction women's writing from German-speaking countries may be taking

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Influence of Environmental Conditions and Inundation History on Bacterial Diversity of Salt Marsh Soils in Southern Louisiana

Diversity patterns and controls on bacterial community composition were investigated from coastal salt marsh soils in southern Louisiana (USA) from 2012 – 2014. These salt marshes are part of an extensive coastal landscape that is experiencing land loss due to subsidence, sea-level rise, and anthropogenic activities, including from the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Prior to the oil spill, microbiology research focused predominately on biogeochemical roles and not on taxonomic representation in the soils or on understanding the significance of taxonomic diversity at the microbial level to marsh food webs or ecosystem dynamics. The purpose of this research was to characterize the taxonomic diversity of marsh soils and examine which sets of environmental parameters, including water inundation frequency and depth, vegetation, and salinity, contributed to the most variance in microbiome taxonomic diversity through time. Historical datasets and on-site measurements from the marshes were used to model marsh elevation and local flooding history, and multivariate statistical analyses were applied to determine bacterial community structure and variance. Regardless of sampling time or geographic location, bacterial communities were 80% similar at the phylum level, meaning that marshes were comprised of similar bacterial groups that likely reflected comparable ecosystem function. Subtle differences in marsh bacterial communities were coupled to geographic region, the depth of water that flooded the marsh surfaces, and salinity of that water, with most of the compositional variations being among the Alphaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, different classes of Chloroflexi, and subgroups within Cyanobacteria. Collectively, these results indicate that some bacterial groups are ubiquitous in natural salt marsh soils, and that efforts to remediate or restore coastal marshes after a disturbance need to consider the importance of key environmental drivers, like salinity, to how marsh soil bacterial communities are structured and how ecological function can be maintained

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A Perspective of Contemporary Water Planning and Management Problems in Utah

I should like to discuss what I consider to be a few major problems Utah faces in connection with water and its development. Time will not permit great detail or breadth of discussion. The points I should like to discuss best can be made by first setting some hydrologic scenery. Actually, although hydrologic considerations provide the central melody to planning for water resources development, there are many socio-politico-legal-economic variations on the theme. My approach will be to remark briefly on thie environment in which today\u27s planning must take place, provide some broad hydrologi guideposts, and with this backdrop select a few problems for comment and discussion

Extending Utility of Non-Urban Water Supplies

Extending the utility of an existing water supply in any river basin suggests a management-planning approach under three general guiding principles: (1) minimize depletions wherever possible (thereby maintaining a greater manageable quantity with subsequent potential to satisfy more uses); (2) generally preserve, protect, and improve water quality (thereby retaining its itility for use by a wider variety of potential users); and (3) make carefully considered allocations (thereby assuring multiples duty, more optimal sequencing, and shifts in use to conform to current and projected soil preferences). There are many technological and managerial techniques that can be employed to implement these principles. Similarly, there are many economic, political, legal, educations, and social mechanisms that can aid or deter in achieving technologically possible efficiencies. This report examines the concept of extending utility of water in a given hydrologic complex; considers the conditions for achieving greater utility in both a physical and socio-economic sense; and discusses some of the things that might lead to better utilization from a regional or public perspective