Step dancing to hip hop? Reconsidering the interrelationship between music and dance in the Ottawa Valley step dancing community

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‘I don’t want to sound like just one person’ : individuality in competitive fiddling

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'If you want to win, you’ve got to play it like a man’ : music, gender, and value in Ontario fiddle contests

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The St. Augustine Hurricane of 1811: Disaster and the Question of Political Unrest on the Florida Frontier

On the 5th of October a violent hurricane hit this city, It caused terrible damage to the houses in town....The destruction is so great that these poor people are entirely ruined. 1 So wrote Spanish East Florida\u27s interim governor Juan Jose de Estrada on December 5, 1811. The hurricane could not have occurred at a more inopportune time. During the previous three years, Spain had suffered an unprecedented series of catastrophes. In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the country, usurped the monarchy, and placed his brother Josef on the throne, thus creating a crisis of legitimacy throughout the Spanish empire. Political confusion led to economic uncertainty as revenues from Spanish America to the metropolis were halted. At the same time, aggressive American expansionism encouraged attacks along the border between the United States and the Spanish colonies. One such invasion was the attempted seizure of East Florida by General George Mathews and his followers in March 1812. Within the chaos of the Spanish empire and threatened with invasion from Georgia, the October hurricane had the potential to be the last straw in a series of misfortunes that swayed popular sentiment in favor of the invaders

The Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Florida

Florida is the neglected stepchild of Spain\u27s American empire, wrote Carl L. Swanson in his introduction to the reprint of Joyce Harman\u27s Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763.1 Written in 2004, Swanson\u27s observation decrying the limited number of books that dealt with early Florida was not too far from the mark. Like Jane Landers\u27observation on the difficulty in placing Florida into one historical tradition or another, such statements underscore the obstacles in crafting a cohesive article that overcomes the problems not encountered in writing historiographical essays for the other centuries of La Florida.2 The challenges begin when one realizes that the eighteenth century is an artificial construct, whether examined within British imperial, Spanish imperial or Native American history. With the exception of Sir Francis Drake\u27s raids in 1586, British imperial historians mark the beginning of their interest with the founding of South Carolina in 1670. Spanish imperial and/or Latin American historians speak of Spain\u27s long seventeenth century, but they cannot agree as to when the long century ended neither for the rest of the Americas nor for the Borderlands.3 Historians of Native American societies constantly stress that the indigenous people had very different ways of looking at their world and their relationships with Europeans

Climate, Community, and Commerce among Florida, Cuba, and the Atlantic World, 1784-1800

In late June 1791, St. Augustine captain Don Antonio de Alcantara sailed into Havana harbor at the helm of his schooner, the Santa Catalina. As the captain and master of his own vessel, he was held in high esteem, and Spanish customs officials acknowldged his status by prefacing his name with the honorifie title Don (Sir).1 A decade earlier, his arrival would have been unthinkable. His port of origin was in British hands in the early 1780s, and Britain was at war with Spain. Even after the conflict ended in 1783, commerce with Cuba remained restricted.2 More important, Alcantara would not have been granted a gentleman\u27s status because he was of humble origins.3 In the intervening years, however, St. Augustine returned to Spanish rule, commercial regulations were relaxed, and Alcantara and several other families enjoyed unprecedented social advancement because they were the conduits that linked cities in Florida, Cuba, and the Atlantic world. Sadly, though, Alcantara\u27s meteoric rise to prominence was short lived. Just day after unloading his cargo, he set sail for home in East Florida unaware that the fifth-most-destructive hurricane in history wa poised to strike the northern coast of Cuba and the Straits of Florida.4 At home in St. Augustine, Alcantara\u27s wife and Santa Catalina\u27s namesake, Catalina Costa, waited in vain for her husband to return. What remained of th schooner probably washed ashore on the Florida peninsula south of St. Augustine, while the fate of her captain and crew was never officially determined.

Introduction

Originally presented at the Third Biennial Allen Morris Conference in February 2004, the articles in this special issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly examine the history of three related riverine environments in north central Florida--the St. Johns River, the Ocklawaha River, and the Withlacoochee River basinss-from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1990s.1 The conference panel was designed to demonstrate how exploiting the rivers furthered modern ideas, promoted progress, and created economic prosperity. All three studies also sought to show how modernization had the potential to wreak havoc on a unique, fragile, and irreplaceable ecosystem. Collectively, these essays examine how the river systems became commercialized, first as a tourist destination, then as a source of cypress lumber, then as a possible alternate water route across the Florida peninsula that would bring thousands ofjobs to a depressed region. Each author also situated his work within one or more sub-disciplines. Steven Noll looks at the social and economic impacts of tourism and logging from the 1850s through the 1920s. M. David Tegeder\u27s article is, first and foremost, a political analysis of the forces that sought to promote the Atlantic Gulf Ship Canal in the 1930s

A Mixed Method Descriptive Study of High School Graduates\u27 Dual Enrollment Experiences and the Influence on College Readiness

The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the perceptions of graduates regarding the benefits of participating in Dual Enrollment and how their participation influenced their college readiness. Dual enrollment programs have become prominent nationwide. Several studies show positive outcomes including increased high school completion, improved postsecondary persistence, and higher college degree completion. This study will evaluate dual enrollment participants at one high school located in central Georgia. Data is analyzed and presented based on relevance to the effectiveness of the dual enrollment program. The study was important because the success of Dual Enrollment could provide a possible remedy for the challenges of decreased college degrees, training for the workforce, and college preparedness. This study will be relevant because scholars are unclear about the effects and effectiveness of Dual Enrollment on college readiness. This research was designed to close some of the gaps in the literature and help education stakeholders continue developing and promoting effective procedures to the Dual Enrollment program. An online survey instrument and a telephone interview were utilized to gain the perceptions of the high school Dual Enrollment students. Mixed method including quantitative and qualitative measures will be applied to this study

Off-shell renormalization of the massive QED in the unitary gauge

Despite its simplicity, the unitary gauge is not a popular choice for practical loop calculations in gauge theories, due to the lack of off-shell renormalizability. We study the renormalization properties of the off-shell Green functions of the elementary electron fields in the massive QED, in order to elucidate the origin and structure of the extra ultraviolet divergences which exist only in the unitary gauge. We find that all these divergences affect the Green functions in a trivial way such that in coordinate space the off-shell Green functions are in fact multiplicatively renormalizable. This result may generalize to the abelian and non-abelian Higgs theories, for which the unitary gauge might bring much simplification to the loop calculations.Comment: LaTeX2e, 7 pages, no figure, minor revision in the introductory paragrap