Letter to Jean Holcomb regarding award of a SEAALL Scholarship, January 6, 1992

A letter from Robert Munro to Jean Holcomb accepting the SEAALL Scholarship awarded to him

Performing the National? Scottish cinema in the time of indyref

This article looks at Scottish cinema during the period 2012-2017, assessing the ways in which the nation’s constitutional debate, Scottish-English relations and discourses of national identity were engaged with thematically by films produced in this period. It argues that Scottish cinema in this period ‘performs the national’, in that a number of films flag their national status and engage with discourses of national identity at a distance, unburdened by any serious demand for national representativeness, as might be the case with a ‘national cinema’. From a corpus of texts in the period which offer the possibility of being read through discourses of the nation, two genre films, White Settlers and Sunshine on Leith, are analysed in detail for their differing narrative takes on Scottish-English relations in the contemporary moment. The article concludes by surmising that while film criticism in Scottish cinema has historically been overly-determined by an ideologically driven pursuit of national representativeness, perhaps the welcome emphasis which has been placed in contemporary criticism on broadening the scope of Scottish cinema studies beyond the national has implied a false dichotomy between the two, where it is more likely we can locate Scottish cinema somewhere in between.https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.054117pubpub

REVOLUTIONARY NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE LOYALIST EXPERIENCE: SURELY WE HAVE DESERVED A BETTER FATE

Before the Revolution New Hampshire had one of the strongest, pro-British governing elites of the colonies. After 1775 however, the Loyalist faction in the state was one of the weakest and least effective. This dissertation seeks to examine the uniqueness of this experience by studying the general situation, the lives of many of the province\u27s Loyalists, and by classifying the Loyalists through their connections with Great Britain. Governor Benning Wentworth tightly controlled the colony through a network of family and business associations which came to dominate the politics and the economy of the province. However, when his nephew John Wentworth succeeded him in 1767, it was a different era, with a declining demand for the colony\u27s products, unstable support in England, and revolutionary madness in America. The rebels soon took to extralegal methods of opposition, outmaneuvering the Loyalists, who were trapped into following constitutional avenues until they became only helpless observers. Because the leading Loyalists followed Wentworth into exile, the movement was decapitated, and with no British occupation, there was no place for the Loyalists to band together. It was easy then for the rebels to identify and control the Loyalists. Yet not all Loyalists were helpless; many served England by facing death as spies, counterfeiters, and soldiers. The end of the war found many Loyalists in permanent exile, mostly in Atlantic Canada. More important to the new nation were the hundreds of Loyalists who remained silent during the war and were allowed to live in comparative peace. These men formed a conservative force in the politics of the new state, and some Loyalists managed to rise to the heights of post-war politics. By studying the New Hampshire Loyalists it is possible to categorize them according to their connections to Great Britain. However, whether influenced by governmental, mercantile, military, or intellectual connections, the decision to remain loyal was a deeply personal one, determined frequently by the inherent conservative nature of man. No matter what influenced their actual decision, they all sincerely believed in the British cause, and many risked their lives trying to defeat the Revolution

The Ambit of Private Arbitration: Limits on Determination under Agreed Dispute Settlement Procedures in Federal Awards and Agreements

Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia, área de Psicologia Clínica (Psicopatologia e Psicoterapias Dinâmicas), apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de CoimbraO presente estudo visa explorar a relação entre os sintomas de stress pós-traumático e a lesão medular, considerando a eventual influência de variáveis sociodemográficas (sexo, idade, escolaridade, rendimentos), clínicas (quadro clínico, classificação neurológica, tempo de lesão, causa da lesão), psicopatológicas (somatização, obsessões-compulsões, sensibilidade interpessoal, depressão, ansiedade, hostilidade, ansiedade fóbica, ideação paranoide, psicoticismo), das experiências peritraumáticas, do suporte social e do locus de controlo na reabilitação. A amostra é composta por 22 sujeitos com lesão medular em regime de internamento no Centro de Medicina e Reabilitação da Região Centro – Rovisco Pais (CMRRC-RP). Os resultados evidenciam que a idade, a escolaridade, a satisfação com o suporte social (Escala de Satisfação com o Suporte Social) e o locus de controlo (Escala de Locus de Controlo na Reabilitação) funcionam como variáveis dimensionais, com um contributo significativo no desenvolvimento da Perturbação de Stress Pós-traumático.This study aims to explore the relationship between the symptoms of post-traumatic stress and spinal cord injury, considering the possible influence of sociodemographic variables (gender, age, education, income), clinical (clinical, neurological classification, injury time, cause the injury), psychopathology (somatization, obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism), the peritraumatic experiences, social support and locus of control in rehabilitation. The sample consists of 22 individuals with spinal cord injured that are inpatient at the Centro de Medicina e Reabilitação da Região Centro – Rovisco Pais (CMRRC-RP). The results showed that age, education, satisfaction with social support (Satisfaction with Social Support Scale) and the control locus (Locus of Control in Rehabilitation Scale) work as dimensional variables, with a significant contribution in the development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Counterfactual Accounts and Equilibrium Explanations

What part should counterfactuals play in our scientific explanatory accounts? In this paper we examine James Woodward’s role of counterfactual explanation, Christopher Hitchcock and James Woodward’s view of counterfactual explanatory depth, and a possible extensions to the equilibrium explanation proposed by R.A. Fisher and Elliot Sober. In the argumentative portion of the paper, equilibrium explanation is examined and an attempt is made to bridge the two accounts

The Original Understanding of “Equal Protection of the Laws”

This Article reports on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments and their legislative evolutions, and also looks at the historical environment in which the equal protection clause was developed, in order to gain an understanding of how that clause was originally read