Delinquency proneness in a group of educationally retarded children

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Delinquency proneness in a group of educationally retarded children

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Land Grant Application- Ramsdell, James (Lubec)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of James Ramsdell for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Inda Robinson.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1741/thumbnail.jp

Daniel Ramsdell interview

Daniel Ramsdell taught in the history department at Central Washington University, 1969-1996.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cwura_interviews/1130/thumbnail.jp

Abstracts of Theses on the Gifted Child Done between 1923 and 1957 at Boston University and Columbia University

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Boston Universit

The Formation of the Arthurian Children\u27s Canon

The first children’s adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur was written by James Knowles in the mid-19th century. In the 103 years between the publication of Knowles’ The Story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table in 1860 and the release of Disney’s The Sword in the Stone in 1963, the tales in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur were synthesized into a story that primarily focused on teaching moral lessons to readers. Knowles’ work, as well as works written by Sidney Lanier and Howard Pyle, adapted Malory’s stories by removing the sex and violence present in the medieval myths. These adaptations remade Arthurian stories into children’s literature, and, by doing so, drove the Arthurian canon into a creative dead end. During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, authors, publishers, educators, and theorists saw children’s literature as inherently didactic. Lanier’s adaptation, which became the dominant American children’s adaptation, removed the affair between Launcelot and Gwenyver that is prominent in Le Morte d’Arthur. Pyle, perhaps inspired in part by Knowles and Lanier before him, painted Arthur and his knights as romanticized models of gentlemanly behavior. Arthur was thereby turned from a morally gray cuckold into a simple exemplar of chivalry. Arthurian tales are and continue to be shared with audiences of all ages, but these 19th and early 20th adaptations constricted medieval Arthurian myths into a children’s canon of formulaic moral stories that ultimately limited its readership and creative innovations

Citizens, Science and A Changing Bay (2015 State of the Bay Presentation)

https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/cbep-presentations/1019/thumbnail.jp

A Close and Supportive Interparental Bond During Pregnancy Predicts Greater Decline in Sexual Activity From Pregnancy to Postpartum: Applying an Evolutionary Perspective

A common topic for advice given to parents after childbirth – both from relationship experts and popular media – is how to “bounce back” to one’s pre-pregnancy sexuality, with warnings that postpartum declines in sexual frequency will take a serious toll on one’s relationship. However, these admonishments may not accurately reflect the ways in which the unique reproductive context of pregnancy and the postpartum transition alter associations between sexual frequency and relationship quality. Evolutionary perspectives on reproductive strategies would suggest that in the postpartum context, decreased sexual activity would help target parental investment in the current offspring (rather than creating new offspring); however, if the parental relationship is lacking in intimacy and support, continued sexual activity may help seal the cracks in the bond. We tested this theory in a longitudinal dyadic study of changes in relationship quality and sexual frequency from pregnancy to 6 months postpartum among 159 heterosexual couples. We found that across three different measures of relationship quality taken from interviews and behavioral observation of couple interactions, higher relationship quality (i.e., greater support, intimacy, and responsiveness) predicted greater decline in sexual frequency whereas sexual frequency remained relatively stable in lower quality relationships. These findings suggest that, during the postpartum transition, decreased sexual frequency may not be a reliable signal of poor relationship quality