Book Review: Research Methods in Education, 7th Edition

This article reviews the book, “Research Methods in Education” by Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison (Authors)

An Analysis of the Traumatic Anxieties of the Protagonists in the Select Novels of Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison received the Pulitzer Prize for her books Beloved (1987) and The Bluest Eye (1993). Human existence includes the experience of psychological distress. Both books are heartbreaking in their examinations of the suffering black people experienced during slavery when whites treated them as property and compared them to animals. In this work, Morrison examined how psychological damage brought on by tragedy may lead to isolation and social immobility. Her writing mostly focuses on the experiences of women victims of sexual and racial persecution. Beloved by Toni Morrison shows many aspects of trauma, such as disintegration, continuity between the past and the present, and restoration. Individuals, families, and even communities may all show signs of trauma. Morrison’s account contains other painful elements, but the overpowering intensity of these occurrences is the most prominent. This dissertation delves into the struggles, fears, and mental pain the black characters in Toni Morrison’s works face

0641: Warren D. Morrison Typescript, 1996

This collection is composed of a copy of a manuscript titled, ‘A branch of the Andrew Morrison family of Greenbrier County, (W) Virginia.’ It covers the families of Johnathan Howell Morrison (1825-1914), John Morrison (1802-1857), Andrew Morrison (1750s?-1840s?), and Nathaniel Morrison(1730?-1810?), and includes transcriptions or copies of wills and other documents related to the Morrisons

Letter, Henry Clay to William K. Wall, April 18, 1840

This handwritten letter, dated April 18, 1840, is written from Henry Clay to William K. Wall, Esq regarding the sale of the estate of Col. Morrison in Cynthiana. Clay requests that the estate be sold at auction, taking no less than the three hundred and fifty dollars that has ben offered.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1125/thumbnail.jp

The Haunted House in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

In A Mercy Toni Morrison tackles the multilayered and strikingly powerful Gothic “haunted” house metaphor from a female perspective. Her revenants and hauntings are not just individual, but also historical, political and cultural manifestations. Through the Gothic dwelling, Morrison explores the fragmented personal and familial identities, conventional gender arrangements, failed domestic ideology, racist and colonial past, etc., in a patriarchal society dominated by whites. Her transgressive rewriting draws attention to the impact of slavery and racism and, consequently, to the othering of ethnic females, especially blacks. Morrison not only depicts the unspeakable horrors of American history, but also provides ways for its regeneration, such as women’s empowerment and their struggle for self-definition. Morrison’s revisitation of the “haunted” house formula offers an alternative female perspective on American identity and history.En A Mercy Toni Morrison aborda la poderosa y compleja metáfora de la casa gótica “encantada” desde una perspectiva femenina. Sus fantasmas no son exclusivamente individuales, sino manifestaciones históricas, políticas y culturales. Mediante la mansión gótica, Morrison analiza la fragmentada identidad personal y familiar, las convenciones de género, la fallida ideología doméstica, el pasado racista y colonial, etc., en una sociedad patriarcal dominada por blancos. Su reescritura transgresora destaca el impacto de la esclavitud y el racismo y, consecuentemente, la alterización de la mujer étnica, especialmente las negras. Morrison no sólo describe los inefables horrores góticos de la historia americana, sino que también proporciona formas de regeneración, tales como el empoderamiento de la mujer y su lucha por autodefinición. La revisitación de Morrison de la fórmula de la casa “encantada” ofrece una perspectiva femenina alternativa de la identidad e historia americanas

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent.

Manifest Destiny in Retrospect In this sympathetic yet not uncritical biography, Robert W. Merry brings James K. Polk out of the shadows of history by casting light on his conflicted and conflict-ridden presidency. Merry addresses and redresses—up to a point—the paradox of Polk’s many ...