Diction in volume II of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Dred

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928

Environmentalism of the poor and the political ecology of prophecy: a contribution to liberation ecotheology

Ecological theology has too often relied on Creation, Sabbatical and other accounts potentially of Priestly origin, or else has employed a hermeneutic of suspicion derived from ecocentric speculative philosophy. These approaches risk the error of reflecting current or biblical ruling class ideologies. It is argued here that a more appropriate approach to ecological theology is the prophetic tradition read from the critical materialism of political ecology. The relationship between society and environment is both socially constructed and material and political ecology uses dialectical materialist methodology in interpreting this. Such analysis emerges from, and contributes to, a preferential option for the victims of environmental injustices, and a political praxis of environmentalism of the poor alongside environmental justice struggles. The starting point of this theology of liberation is the author’s context as an activist in, and action researcher with, environmental justice movements. Three contrasting case studies are interrogated with respect to this theology: environmental justice campaigns associated with Friends of the Earth Scotland; the Bhopal survivors’ movement; and a working group on environmental justice within the Iona Community. Insights are derived from this praxis which make a contribution to historic projects which are neither reformist nor utopian but radically prophetic

Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Older Adults: A Successful Presbyterian Model

This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of the motivations for and benefits of church attendance in the aged population. A survey of the active older members of a particular church was conducted in conjunction with a review of previous research on related subjects. These methods revealed that the primary and secondary motivations for church attendance were to worship and to fellowship, respectively. It was also found that church attendance plays a major role in the adjustment of the aged. However, attendance and participation are sometimes inadvertently discouraged by youth-oriented clergy. Churches can greatly contribute to the satisfaction of both the spiritual and social needs of their older members

The propagation of time harmonic Rayleigh-Lamb waves in a bimaterial plate

The present study involves two semi-infinite homogeneous, isotropic, linearly elastic plates perfectly bonded end to end. The plates have dissimilar material properties (e.g., copper and aluminum). Incident on the interface are both the lowest symmetric and the lowest antisymmetric Rayleigh-Lamb eigenmodes. The resulting transmitted and reflected fields contain contributions from all of the real, imaginary and complex plate modes which are active at the given excitation frequency. A study of the distribution of energy among the various reflected and transmitted Rayleigh eigenmodes over a range of frequencies is undertaken for a number of material combinations of the bimaterial plate. (rrh)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CAhttp://archive.org/details/propagationoftim00scanO&MN Direct FundingApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

A study of pistis in the New Testament

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History and contexts of municipal solid waste management in Aba – Recounting the stories of residents

Stanley Nwankpa - ORCID 0000-0002-5393-0426 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5393-0426Replaced AM with VoR 2020-10-12.To review the history of MSW management in a place, authors often review the development drivers of MSW management and or how such drivers have affected MSW management policy or practice in the place. This study focuses on the lived experiences of the residents. The researchers believe that a phenomenological review of the lived experiences of long term residents of the city of Aba, provide unique and more useful account of the development of MSW management in the city especially in the absence of any significant development in the methods and or processes of managing MSW. It is also recommended that similar methods be utilised in reviewing the development of MSW management in similar cities in Nigeria and other cities in Sub Saharan Africa. The study finds that over the period in review, the process of MSW management in Aba has remained rudimentary, primarily consisting of evacuation of refuse from one point to another without any form of treatment or processing. Responses from participants of this study – drawn from an extended peer community of long-term residents of the city, suggest that except for a period between 2013 and 2014, the overall MSW management situation in the city have worsened. From post-independence in 1960 to 2017, four distinct eras characterised mainly by the leadership and clarity of purpose was identified by analysing the responses from participants. There are widespread accusations of nepotism, corruption, ineptitude and high handedness levelled against the current leadership of Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) - the agency responsible for managing MSW in Aba. However, most of the current problems and challenges can be traced back to several years of negligence and subsequent dilapidation of infrastructure. For a sustainable progress to be made and maintained, MSW managers in the city must find a way to involve the wider community of stakeholders in the design, implementation and evaluation of the city’s waste management policies and processes.https://doi.org/10.7176/JEES/10-9-0610pubpub