Newspaper - June 15 1947 - The Charlotte Observer - 100th Anniversary

Article about the Religious Festival held in honor of the 100th Anniversary of First Baptist Church Shelby.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/baptist-historical-collections-first-baptist-church-anniversary-celebrations/1002/thumbnail.jp

The Charlotte Observer October 17, 1971

Article about Van Ramsey directing the Sing Out Choir.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/baptist-historical-collections-first-baptist-church-music-ministry/1086/thumbnail.jp

COVID-19 Spurs Giving For Detroit’s African-American Muslim Institutions

This article details three African-American, Detroit based Muslim institutions and their relief and donation efforts for those suffering from COVID-19. The three organizations are the Historic Masjid Wali Muhammad, the Muslim Center Mosque and Community Center, and Dar Al-Rahma. C.R.I.T.E.R.I.O.N Urban Farms, along with co-founders Na‘im Muslim Sabir and Omar AbdulKhaaliq are featured in the article. Dar Al-Rahma leader, Shaykh Abdulkarim Yayha, owner of Khalipha’s Katering, Khalipha Kane, community activist and member of the Dar Al-Rama, Jabril Abdul-Nur Ahmad, and community leader Zarinah El-Amin are featured in the article

UK meteotsunamis: a revision and update on events and their frequency

A tsunami is a series of waves caused by the displacement of water. The displacement may result from ‘bottom‐up’ seabed movement, such as caused by earthquakes, landslides and volcanic eruptions or ‘top‐down’ movement, from pressure perturbations in the atmosphere. These ‘top‐down’ events are termed meteotsunamis. Meteotsunamis frequently occur in the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, the east coast and Great Lakes of North America, and Japan, so they are not exclusive to the United Kingdom. The most recent meteotsunami near the UK coast was in May 2017, when waves around 2m in elevation, generated by a storm passing over the UK, struck the coast of the Netherlands. Historical documents covering the past 150 years describe many meteotsunamis from United Kingdom (UK) coastal waters (Haslett et al ., 2009; Haslett and Bryant, 2009; Tappin et al ., 2013; Vilibić et al ., 2015; O'Brien et al ., 2018). Some of these events have resulted in fatalities, involving beach users who were struck by unexpected sea waves. Meteotsunamis commonly strike the coasts of the UK, damaging harbours, boats and very rarely, causing fatalities. In the UK, they were usually detected by analysis after the event, unless witnessed first‐hand. This post‐event analysis is particularly necessary in the UK because the data provided by the tide gauge system, operated by the Environment Agency, only records at 15‐min intervals, not in real time as in the rest of Europe. The periods of meteotsunamis are in the range of minutes to tens of minutes (Pattiaratchi and Wijeratne, 2015). A frequency of tens of minutes is similar to a typical frequency expected from a meteotsunami that would have an amplified response from harbour or bay resonance (Tappin et al ., 2013). Therefore, those occurring in UK waters are not often recorded with the present tide gauge settings and as a consequence, cannot be analysed effectively

Narratives of sex-segregated professional identities

This article highlights the significance of small story analysis for the identification of positioning acts which function as rhetorical warrants for career choices and trajectories. It analyses stories told by Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) investigating the tensions expressed in the negotiation and performance of their gendered professional identities. Identity work is achieved via accountability and orientation to: past and present self; interlocutors within the interaction; and “master narratives” about gendered work. Small stories act as a medium of professional identity construction, rapport-building and as a site of contestation, employed to (re)appraise the social order, particularly with respect to “women’s” and “men’s” work. Gendered discourses are shown to impact on the amount of men entering the SLT profession and the specialisms and progression routes that men and women pursue. The analysis points to the reproductive, pervasive and regulatory power of gendered discourses on individuals’ experience of their subjectivity and professional identity

Euphoric defiance: the role of positive emotions in the British Eurosceptic discourse

Ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union, emotions have dominated the public debate. How negative emotions, such as anger, have impacted the Brexit vote, has been widely researched. Less attention has been focused on the role positive emotions played in debating Britain?s relationship to the EU. Using critical discourse analysis and drawing on appraisal theory to investigate the representation of emotions in six sample texts from a corpus of so-called ?Euromyths? (N=334), this study argues that positive emotions were used to create a myth in Roland Barthes? sense to naturalise a Eurosceptic ideology of British defiance and power

The Charlotte Observer Feb. 22, 1969

Article about a choir festival; First Baptist Church Shelby is participating.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/baptist-historical-collections-first-baptist-church-music-ministry/1085/thumbnail.jp

Article on V.S.Naipaul

Articles and cuttings announcing the winner of the 1971 Booker Priz

Article on Susan Hill: Part 3

Clippings and articles regarding shortlisted author Susan Hil