The teaching of French and German in our American schools.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Edna Manley\u27s The Diaries : Cultural Politics and the Discourse of Self

A critic of imperialism, race and class privilege, sculptor Edna Manley contributed to the ascendancy of a West Indian cultural aesthetic. Her productivity in the creative arts and her promotion of indigenous cultural organizations were vital to the growth of a post-colonial identity expressing Jamaican national unity and cultural plurality. The wife of Premier Norman W. Manley and the mother of Michael Manley, Jamaica\u27s former Prime Minister, she drew strength from her cross-cultural heritage as a British-trained artist seeking to express the collective unconsciousness of her people. Her creative work finds its symbols in the subaltern currents of Caribbean life in the ongoing processes of community-making that forge a national identity out of peoples displaced from many lands. Her art is integrative: Afro-Caribbean and European themes merge in a symbolic universe suggesting wholeness. Her self-reflections, in diary form, also illustrate her determination to link opposing metaphors of the self into a central, organizing image

Te Deum в кириллической транскрипции с подстрочным церковнославянским переводом

The Latin Psalter from the Chudov monastery, written in Cyrillic letters around the end of the 15th century, is a document of paramount importance for the study of the Latin cultural tradition in Muscovy. This unique manuscript seems to be linked to the fervent translation activity directed by the archbishop of Novgorod Gennadii (1484–1504). The wide space left between the lines of the main Latin text was without doubt supposed to be filled with the Church Slavic corresponding text. A Slavic “translation” was indeed inserted into the biblical cantica and other texts, among which the hymn Te Deum, traditionally (and wrongly) considered to be a joint composition by Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, which was very widespread in the Western Church. The article features the first diplomatic interlinear edition of the Slavic-Latin Te Deum, which is preceded by a short description and analysis of the Slavic text and its main linguistic peculiarities in comparison with another translation of the same work, made some decades later by Dmitry Gerasimov. Here all relevant differences between the two Slavic versions, both at the lexical and grammatical levels, are presented and shortly discussed. Further, some evident errors in the Slavic text of the Chudov Psalter cast some doubts on the possibility to consider it a real translation in the strict sense of the term; it seems rather to function as a lexico-grammatical interlinear gloss, to be read vertically as an auxiliary tool for a proper understanding of the Latin original.Чудовская латинская псалтирь, написанная кириллическими буквами предположительно в конце XV в., представляет собой документ первостепенной важности для изучения латинской культурной традиции в Московской Руси. Эта уникальная рукопись возникла, по всей видимости, в рамках лихорадочной переводческой деятельности, которой руководил новгородский архиепископ Геннадий (1484–1504). Широкое пространство, оставленное между строками основного латинского текста, несомненно, было предназначено для заполнения соответствующим церковнославянским текстом. Славянский «перевод» был действительно вставлен в библейские песни и другие молитвы, среди которых находится широко распространенный в западной церкви гимн Te Deum, традиционно (и ошибочно) считающийся совместным сочинением свв. Амвросия и Августина. В статье впервые осуществляется дипломатическое подстрочное издание славяно-латинского текста Te Deum, которому предшествуют краткое описание и анализ церковнославянского текста и его главных языковых особенностей в сравнении с другим переводом того же произведения, сделанным спустя несколько десятилетий Дмитрием Герасимовым. Здесь представляются и кратко оговариваются все существенные различия между двумя славянскими версиями, как на лексическом, так и на грамматическом уровнях. Некоторые очевидные ошибки в славянском тексте Чудовской латинской псалтири ставят под сомнение возможность считать его переводом в прямом смысле слова; создается впечатление, что данный текст скорее выполнял функцию непрерывной лексико-грамматической глоссы, добавленной между строками, которую следует читать вертикально как вспомогательное средство для правильного понимания латинского подлинника

Autoignition test cell Patent

Test chamber for determining decomposition and autoignition of materials used in spacecraft under controlled environmental condition

Catalogue of the Springfield Normal School

Full title: Catalogue of the Springfield Normal School, Established in 1887, Springfield, Penobscot County, Maine, for the School Year, 1895-6. Includes lists of instructors and students with information about the design of the school and methods of study

Introspective accuracy for social cognition across the psychosis spectrum: Influence of sleep disturbance

People with schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar disorders can have impairments in introspective accuracy (IA; ability to accurately estimate one’s own abilities). Research suggests that positive, negative, and depressive symptoms may be related to IA, but findings are mixed. Examining sleep disturbance as a determinant of IA may help explain these mixed findings. The current study aimed to explore the relationships between sleep disturbance, symptoms, and IA in participants across the psychosis spectrum. Participants completed diagnostic, symptom, and sleep disturbance assessments. Participants also completed social cognitive tasks, estimated their performance on the tasks (used to calculate IA), and indicated their confidence in their answers. Across the sample, IA and sleep disturbance were not significantly related, and sleep disturbance did not moderate the relationships between symptoms and IA. However, significant relationships were revealed when examining diagnostic groups separately. For those with bipolar disorders and schizophrenia, lower confidence and underestimation of abilities were associated with greater sleep disturbance, while for those with schizoaffective disorder, greater sleep disturbances were associated with higher confidence and overestimation of performance. Additionally, sleep disturbance significantly moderated the relationships between positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and confidence. Findings from the current study suggest that sleep disturbance, and the interaction between sleep disturbance and symptoms, may be impacting IA and confidence in different ways. Results also indicate unique relationships between sleep disturbance, IA, and confidence between diagnostic groups. Future research is needed to further explore these complex relationships, including longitudinal work and studies incorporating assessments of functioning

The Cost of Obedience

The Nazis follow through with Hitler\u27s plan to exterminate the Jews. Many of the soldiers who work at the death camps were not even members of the Nazi party originally. However, most follow orders obediently. Anne Springfield: I have never been a writer. In fifth grade my English teacher specifically told me so with a bright red pen. She continued to confirm this statement with a D on my book report essay. Fifth grade! Nobody got a \u27D in fifth grade! I was convinced for the next eight years that I would never write anything worth reading. This essay was the final essay we wrote in our GWRIT 102D class, and I wanted to explore a different writing style. I had finally developed some confidence in my writing and ideas, and I wanted to take advantage of it. The hardest part of the process was coming up with an idea in which I could relate history to a non-historical event. Once I had the idea, the first draft came out easily, but the conclusion really had me troubled. I brought what I had in for the peer workshop and received some helpful ideas that lent me some inspiration. I went back to my room and just free wrote for about an hour. By the time I was done, I had four different conclusions. I wanted something powerful to conclude the paper, something that made the reader just stop and think. From the four conclusions I had, I picked out the ideas I liked and organized them into a conclusion I was really proud of. I though the conclusion tied up the essay nicely by bringing all the aspects of the italics, personal stories and history together without compromising the power of the essay

THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CHEMOTHERAPEUTICS ON CALF VENOUS COMPLIANCE

BACKGROUND: Many pathophysiological conditions have been associated with irregular venous compliance. There is evidence that arterial compliance can be lower in an individual who has undergone chemotherapy, but to date it has not been investigated as to whether the same is true for venous compliance. PURPOSE: Investigate differences in the venous compliance in cancer survivors and healthy individuals. METHODS: Twenty participants, 10 of whom were cancer survivors (CS=63.2 ± 6.7yrs), while the remaining 10 were healthy individuals (C=60.2 ± 6.7yrs) underwent submaximal graded exercise tests and assessment of calf venous compliance. Utilizing venous occlusion plethysmography, calf venous compliance was determined in both groups as the first derivative of the pressure-volume relation during cuff pressure reduction. Capacitance and capillary filtration volumes were determined from the increase in limb volume following cuff pressure inflation. RESULTS: Body mass (CS=73.5 14.8 kg, C=82.3 15.5 kg); height (CS=165.1 7.9 cm, C=170.4 14.8 cm); VO2 peak (CS=34.7 9.6 , C=40.9 9.8 ); and resting blood pressures were not significantly different between the groups. Resting heart rate was (CS=76 8.2 bpm, C=67.9 8.9 bpm; was significantly greater in cancer survivors. There were no differences in calf [∆LV = vs. ∆LV = ] venous compliance, capacitance or capillary filtration volumes between the sexes. CONCLUSION: Results from this study indicate venous compliance is not different among cancer survivors who have received neuro-toxic or cardio-toxic chemotherapeutics and healthy individuals